How to clone HDD in an External HDD in ubuntu 11.04

[Saikat Saha]

This might not be what you're looking for, but if the second hard
drive is not the same size, doing a byte-level copy with DD may not be
optimal.

You might want to do a "cp -pr" (to copy recursively, along with the
permissions) or an rsync (I think "-a" should do owners, permissions,
recursivity, timestamp copy, etc..).

You can also use rsync to copy to a remote system, but you can also
use SystemImager to create a perfect copy of a hard drive or partition
and deploy it to one or many other locations (like Ghost). However,
since SystemImager is file-level and not byte-level, it easily clones
to hard-drives that aren't necessarily the same size. It also does
things like cloning the data and then changing the IP on the remote
system.

Dustin Oprea


can you please let me know how to install Systemimager & clone the hdd
as I am not to find the package from synaptic ?

Saikat

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM, J. Bakshi <bakshi12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:24:44 +0800
> Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> > dd_rescue -v infile outfile
>> >
>> > so
>> >
>> > dd_rescue -v <partition to read>  <<partition to  write>
>>
>> Curious to know the reason why ddrescue is preferred to dd?
>>
>>
>  It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors where tools like dd will fail.
>
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