How to clone HDD in an External HDD in ubuntu 11.04

[Dustin Oprea]

You're going to have to do that work yourself. Never mind SystemImager..
It's probably not a good solution for you.

Use the other guy's suggestion... Clonezilla.


Use Google to figure it out.

Dustin Oprea

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Saikat Saha <saikat.80in at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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