On 02/20/2016 05:34 AM, John Thornton wrote: > I see two ways to clone a HD on the web one using dd and one using tar. > > Boot from the live cd. Mount your destination media to (say) /mnt. > > dd if=/dev/sd whatever of=/mnt/mybackup.ddimg > > In this case what do they mean by mount? > > Mount the source to /mnt, mount the destination to /home (say) > > tar cvfpz /home/mybackup.tar.gz /mnt > > does this tar create a copy of the whole disk? > > I think this will get you everything but the boot block. If you can then get the copied disk booted up from a CD, you can then create the boot block with by running grub-setup. (It is also possible to run grub-setup after booting from the CD, but it takes more options on the command line.)
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