I was wondering... I wanted to clone my hard drive because I need to repartiton it to make it smaller. Do I really need to worry about the data getting corrupted? If I do need to worry about it is the data recoverable if something happens to it? On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > you know.... I want to clone my drive because I thought you really > Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: > >> I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with: >> rsync - need to vaxHXY --checksum /path1 /path2 /path3 someone@remotebox:/mybackup >> >> The 'x' constrain the sweep to a partition to avoid memory directories >> (/proc, /dev, /sys) which forces to explicitly name every mounted directory >> to copy. >> Then you can 'restore' with: >> rsync -vaxHXY --checksum someone@remotebox:/mybackup / >> All the options are important (except '-v'), but specially '-H' *HAS* to >> be there if you are cloning directories with kernel files or the resulting >> system will eventually become unstable. >> Free advise, can't sue me... :) >> YMMV >> ET >> PS: If you have any question, >> you will get any answer. >> >> >> >> Michael Havens writes: >> >>> I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a miiror image of my >>> hard drive? dd? Or is there a more user friendly way? I kinda want to do >>> it >>> like a raid would do it. You know.... where I would just recopy the >>> image >>> if my computer gets corrupted and it would be like the day I made the >>> image...... hmmmm.... google it! I found system rescue cd! ( >>> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_**Page) >>> DOes this sound good? What do you all >>> recommend? You know, on the first page about this one of the programs is >>> partimage and they say that one of the limitations of it is that it does >>> not support ext4 filesystem. hmmmmm.... after a bit of reading me thinks >>> this doesn't work with ext4 even though the 'Main Page' says it does. Do >>> any of you know any differently?..... hmmmmm..... I've been looking but >>> all >>> of the copy programs say they support ext2 & 3 but not 4. What do you >>> say? >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: