Re: SSD is dying- clone help

I don't see the need to complicate this with 'Clonezilla', and unless you
use the right rsync switches (-DX --super that I recall) rsync won't work.
This is how I've done it 917368425+1 times:

Boot your box from a live CD.
Mount your boot device to /mnt
cd /mnt;
tar jcf /tmp/boot-drv.tar.bz2 .

Replace your boot drive, boot again with a live CD, make your partitions,
swap space and filesystem as desired.
Mount your new and empty filesystem to /mnt and
cd /mnt;
tar xf /tmp/boot-drv.tar.bz2
Make sure that your /mnt/etc/fstab matches whatever devices/labels/UUIDs (I
normally set my new drives to the old UUIDs and forget about it).
chroot /mnt
grub-install (supergrub will bail you out if you have difficulties here.
reboot and enjoy... :)
ET

PS: If you have any question,
you will get any answer.



Wayne Davis writes:

> OH NOES!
>
> My SSD boot drive is about to die.... I can feel a disturbance in the
> force.
> I JUST ordered (Sun evening) a new 128GB SSD to replace my ailing 64 GB
> Boot drive.
> IT WILL BE HERE MONDAY (tomorrow) and I think I need to do this asap. It
> has Kubuntu 13.04
>
> I HAVE a 500 GB external I could create a image file on...
> OR I could create the image on another drive in the system (they are big)
>
> HOW should I do this?
>
>
>
>
> IDEALLY, I'd like to: Make the IMAGE, put it on the new drive, and swap
> them out and have happy feet.8-)
> However, with me... It's far more likely I will slave for hours, transfer
> garbage, lose everything, and have my feet nailed to the floor. :'(
>
> Is there a fairly easy way?
>
> Thanks All... :-)
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