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On 02/17/2013 09:03 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 17.02.2013 01:36, schrieb doug:
>> On 02/16/2013 06:53 PM, Martín Marqués wrote:
>>> How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving
>>> me some trouble) to a new disk. I have 4 partitions, all of which I
>>> have only passed /home using cp -.a
>>>
>>> I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, and
>>> if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var.
>>>
>> There is a Linux program called Clonezilla which is supposed to be able
>> to clone disks. a program called HDClone, from Miray. There are several
>> versions of HD Clone: one is free, one costs some money, and others cost
>> even more. The difference appears to be the speed of copying. I
>> originally used the freebie, and it took about 7 hours to clone a 160G
>> disk. Later, I bought the first paid one, and it took about 3 hours to
>> do something similar
>
> * boot from a live-cd and use dd * dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=16M
>
> /dev/sdX = your source disk /dev/sdY = your new disk
>
> be careful not make a mistake in source / target, afetr enter you are lost
> in this case
>
> with the script below if even mirrored 4 x 2 TB SATA disks from one machine
> to another with 3 linux-software-RAIDs in a few hours to a blank machine
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /clone.sh date dd if=/dev/sda | ssh
> root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sda bs=16M" dd if=/dev/sdb | ssh
> root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sdb bs=16M" dd if=/dev/sdc | ssh
> root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sdc bs=16M" dd if=/dev/sdd | ssh
> root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sdd bs=16M" date
You may benefit from having bs=16M on the input side as well, otherwise the
input dd will use default bs size.
i.e.
dd if=/dev/sda bs=16M | ssh root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sda bs=16M"
All the best,
- -Greg
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Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
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