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kamalantha 08-05-2010 10:59 PM
Make a Clone Hard Disk
 
What is the best software to clone a hard disk with Fedora

RockDoctor 08-06-2010 09:07 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kamalantha (Post 4057485)
What is the best software to clone a hard disk with Fedora
Not sure about "best", but simplest might be connect your two hard drives, boot from a device other than one of those two drives, then, assuming the original is /dev/sda and the copy will be written to /dev/sdb:
Code:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

King_DuckZ 08-06-2010 11:09 AM
I did something like that like two days ago from one laptop to the other - I just piped dd and netcat together on both computers: in udp mode it took around 2:30h for an 80gb harddisk (though I must say I didn't try to restore the backed-up data yet).

paulsm4 08-06-2010 11:43 AM
Hi -

I'd also recommend looking at "Ghost for Linux" (G4l):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/


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