Dear All I learned to clone my disk as the following : #dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb As far as I have understood, there is another gui-based utility named clonezilla that can do the same. If I am correct, please let me know how can I install clonezilla on my centos machine to try cloning my disk? Thank you
On 12/29/2013 07:08 AM, hadi motamedi wrote:
how can I install clonezilla on my centos machine to try cloning my disk?
Hi,
You don't have to install it. Clonezilla it's a Live CD: you boot from it, do your thing and you're done. It's way better than using dd because it's filesystem-aware and will only copy the used bits.
Regards, Jorge
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/29/2013 07:08 AM, hadi motamedi wrote:
how can I install clonezilla on my centos machine to try cloning my disk?
Hi,
You don't have to install it. Clonezilla it's a Live CD: you boot from it, do your thing and you're done. It's way better than using dd because it's filesystem-aware and will only copy the used bits.
I have never used clonezilla's GUI. Hmmm, maybe I had but never noticed.
To the OP, clonezilla is in a different level than dd. Yes, it can copy a local drive partition to another local drive partition, but it can also copy, say, and entire drive -- logical volumes included -- into images in another machine using ssh while keeping the different partitions separated. And, as Jorge said, only copying what was changed.
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On 12/29/13, Mauricio Tavares raubvogel@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/29/2013 07:08 AM, hadi motamedi wrote:
how can I install clonezilla on my centos machine to try cloning my disk?
Hi,
You don't have to install it. Clonezilla it's a Live CD: you boot from it, do your thing and you're done. It's way better than using dd because it's filesystem-aware and will only copy the used bits.
I have never used clonezilla's GUI. Hmmm, maybe I had but nevernoticed.
To the OP, clonezilla is in a different level than dd. Yes, itcan copy a local drive partition to another local drive partition, but it can also copy, say, and entire drive -- logical volumes included -- into images in another machine using ssh while keeping the different partitions separated. And, as Jorge said, only copying what was changed.
Regards, Jorge _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Thank you very much for your help. With your information at hand my case is totally SOLVED . Thank you again
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