Reply to: Best way to clone a server hdd?

[Bailifei]

server clone

i used easeus todo backup to clone system disk.
when i an cloning i can even resize the destination disk, thus i can make full use of the new hard disk.
u can google it.

[Fred Bloggs]

The latest version I used reported the drives with the correct model numbers, the problem was identifying two identical drives - that's when to be very careful.

I agree, I had the same issue with Acronis. Next Time I will guy drives with two different capacties just so that I can be certain. EG- Instead of 2 x 320Gb, buy 1 x 500Gb and 1 x 320Gb. Then it is crystal clear which drive is which at a glance.

[Cliphead]

If I recall correctly CloneZilla uses some weird scheme for identifying disks so make sure you know which disks are installed.

The latest version I used reported the drives with the correct model numbers, the problem was identifying two identical drives - that's when to be very careful.

[dinker]

If I recall correctly CloneZilla uses some weird scheme for identifying disks so make sure you know which disks are installed.

[Sysman]

I cloned two drives today, WinXP and a CentOS 5 server using Clonezilla.

Worked perfectly.

Good find. Thanks.

(the more tools the better)

[Cliphead]

I cloned two drives today, WinXP and a CentOS 5 server using Clonezilla.

Worked perfectly.

[lilelvis2000]

have a look at this. I think it does answer your questions.
Clone your Ubuntu installation onto a new hard disk | Linux.com

[Fred Bloggs]

Excellent, I hope the WD flavour of Acronis worked for you. It was 100% for me a few weeks back.

[Sysman]

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Tried that (it's EASEUS) and when it saw that I was running 64 bit Windows it wanted me to cough up for the paid for version.

Some HDD manufacturers have a free version of Acronis that you can use if there is at least one of their HDD's installed in the machine. I have used the Acronis software from Western Digital and from Seagate, I can confirm that they worked faultlessly for me when migrating HDD's.

I can confirm that. I just did a search for "Western Digital Acronis", and found the relevant version for my disk. There's also a WD "Data Lifeguard" utility which does low level reporting and testing.

[administrator]

I usually leave out the "v" from the tar command options, especially when going at a whole disk.

• any errors reported are easy to see
• if working remotely, you aren't consuming a load of bandwidth for the display of each and every file. Displaying everything over a network connection can slow the whole process down

Good tip, thanks!

[Sysman]

If you have only the one partition then it is easy. Just back up all the content in a tar file.

Howto: Backup and restore your system! - Ubuntu Forums

Did this recently with a machine containing about 100GB and it worked well.

Why not partition the disk to mirror your working one and then just tar, (or cp as someone else suggested) the content over. Or RSync.

I usually leave out the "v" from the tar command options, especially when going at a whole disk.

• any errors reported are easy to see
• if working remotely, you aren't consuming a load of bandwidth for the display of each and every file. Displaying everything over a network connection can slow the whole process down

[administrator]

If you have only the one partition then it is easy. Just back up all the content in a tar file.

Howto: Backup and restore your system! - Ubuntu Forums

Did this recently with a machine containing about 100GB and it worked well.

Why not partition the disk to mirror your working one and then just tar, (or cp as someone else suggested) the content over. Or RSync.

[Fred Bloggs]

Some HDD manufacturers have a free version of Acronis that you can use if there is at least one of their HDD's installed in the machine. I have used the Acronis software from Western Digital and from Seagate, I can confirm that they worked faultlessly for me when migrating HDD's.

[bellymonster]

Acronis True Image has always been a firm favourite with me.
Sure it costs £30 odd quid but it works flawlessly and most would struggle to make a mistake with it.

But plenty of the freebie apps out there will do it just as well as long as you know what you are doing.

[AtW]

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