How to clone HDD in an External HDD in ubuntu 11.04

[Johan Scheepers]

On 23/02/2012 16:31, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:bakshi12 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:24:44 +0800
>     > Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com <mailto: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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I would also suggest clenezilla. Used it a few times wit suscces. Johan


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