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Can cloning a hard disk drive to a SSD drive physically damage the SSD or the performance of the SSD?
I have a new SSD drive, I want to use it to replace the old mechanical hard disk drive in a laptop.
The laptop had a new O/S (Windows 7 64-bit) installed about 9 months ago and I want to know if it's ...
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What's the best way to clone multiple PCs from one machine?
Where I work we have dozens and dozens of old ThinkPad laptops. A lot of these can be reused but not for our needs. They have been long since replaced. The higher-ups have decided to donate them to ...
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running
I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine.
In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic ...
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How to Mirror or Clone a Spanned Volume in Windows 2008
I have a spanned volume (3x6+ TB disks spanned to one 20+ TB volume) that I need to mirror or clone to a new 20+ TB (unspanned) volume. Once mirrored or cloned I'm going to destroy the original ...
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Cloning a Linux Server after I have all configured
I'm a super noob with Linux and I wanted to know how to Clone/Ghost a linux install from one server to another (they are pretty much the same hardware, Dell R710s) but I need to make many of them and ...
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Clonzilla device-to-device clone fails after completing bitmap
I'm attempting to do a Device to Device clone of Win 7 from a 1TB drive to another.
The target drive is blank, the source is about 30% full.
I'm running from a USB and have tried running clonezilla ...
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Hard Disk Un-used space
I have a hard drive of 150gb. I recently cloned a vmdk as physical onto this hard disk. My question is, because the vmdk was 90gb of partition space, the rest of my 150gb space is not shown as a ...
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CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS
I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have ...
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How to clone with cat?
I want to clone an 8.1gig bootable disk to an 8.0gig disk and have the clone remain bootable.
dd causes problems because the destination disk is a few mb smaller than the source.
Can "cat" help me ...
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Virtual to Physical desktop cloning
I am trying to clone a VMware Workstation VM so I can load it on the computers around our office.
The VM in question is a Windows XP SP3 VM with a 40GB IDE VMDK.
I am seriously missing something and ...
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How does Windows 2008 remember drive letter / mount point associations?
We use storage array features to clone LUNs and then map these "new" LUNs out again to the same or different hosts. A typical case is when we refresh between environments, so imagine cloning a LUN ...
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Is it possible to restore disk image to a different size hard disk
recently I made a backup 120 GB disk image using dd:
dd if=/dev/sda of=backup.img
Now I have a new 320 GB hard disk and want to restore that backup image to that new disk. Will running
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Need advice regarding Hard Disk Cloning
The primary hard drive sda of my cent os server has got many 'offline uncorrectable sectors' and hence I am planning to clone the drive. But cloning the entire drive is not a feasible solution, as it ...
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How to copy image of used portion of boot HD to smaller replacement SSD
I bought a 80gb Intel SSD to be my primary boot and system disk. I have trimmed my current primary (500gb RAID1) down to 60gb. I want to now image or copy and make the SSD my primary. The software ...
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After using dd new disk cannot be booted and partition tables lost
After I used dd to clone a 120 gb hard disk to new empty 320 gb hard disk, the new disk cannot be booted. And fdisk tell me the partition table is no valid and Gparted just cannot edit the ...
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How to prepare a custom installation of Windows 7 for cloning to a dozen machines with various hardware configurations?
I would like the image to detect and install storage controller and video drivers for a limited but varying set of machines, known ahead of time. Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
I would ...
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How do I replace hard drives in a Dell PowerEdge 1950
My Dell PowerEdge 1950 has 2x 3.5inch 146Gb SAS attached to a PERC 5/I Raid controller card in a raid1 configuration.
I want to replace these with 2x 2TB SATA drives which the Dell documentation ...
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Hard Drive upgrade advice for a Dell PowerEdge 1950
My setup is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with 2x 140Gb Hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The OS is Windows 2003 Web Edition and disk is partitioned into to two, a 12Gb C: partition and the remainder is ...
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Windows 7 disk backup and clone for deployment to multiple systems
I'm in the process of deploying some new PCs (there's only 8), all identical hardware. What I'd like to do is install Windows 7 (64bit), join to domain etc, install a bunch of other software, and then ...
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Disk Imaging and Recovery Software for Windows XP SP3
I have just installed Windows XP SP3 in my workstation and I have a strange behavior in Acronis TrueImage Disk Imaging Software I use. I notices from some forums that there is lot o f posts regarding ...
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Clone disk with dd, and change blocksize?
I need to clone my 300GB disk to 500GB disk with dd, but the old disk (300GB) has too *big block size.
Will this change the block size of output partition too? I understod that obs only meant to be ...
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Best way to clone a live linux system
Does anybody know of a way to clone a live linux system? I have a live installation running a production site. Problem is, I'm needing to clone it (without bring it down), and then move it over ...
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Get exact size in bytes of a disk & partitions in windows
I'm using dd (under cygwin) to copy a shadow image of a disk in windows. Shadow copy will only give me a partion, so what I am doing is:
1) using dd to grab the disk header (32k on Win2003)
2) using ...
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help building a PC that can image a dozen hard drives simultaneously
Not sure if this belongs on here or SuperUser, but here goes...
I'm trying to figure out how to make a mass hard drive imaging PC out of COTS parts. A dedicated imaging device can do 10 drives at a ...
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What's the best way to store an image?
I am attempting to create my own one-off imaging utility based on fedora and I have one main question. The utility (well, in theory) will save a raw image of the machine to a network storage ...
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cloning with dd - is non-partitioned space considered the same as empty space within filesystem for resulting image size?
note: all = all that i've found
all the "cloning with dd" information talks about how dd copies all the "empty space", but literally all writings seem to be responding to a situation where ...
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Migrate Hosted VPS server to my own server
Is it possible to direct copy an entire VPS host to my own server?
My current VPS is en the US and the response times from/to Denmark, is bugging me alot. I have previously had my own server, running ...
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Restore Windows from local system image
Back in the day (late 90s) I worked with a school who partitioned their desktop systems into two drives, the main Windows drive and a secondary hidden drive which held a system image for easy restore ...
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Cloning a disk to a directory
What’s the best way to clone an old smaller drive to a directory of a new larger one? I want to use this not as a backup but just for reference and will trash it after a while. It could be just one ...
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Looking to replace Ghost with FSArchiver or Clonezilla, few questions about capabilities
I work for a PC Repair company and we are looking into setting up a dedicated machine with externally accessible SATA bays to clone harddrives as a safety net incase something goes wrong during a ...
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What's the best way to move a windows 7 installation from a hdd to another?
I have a hdd with windows 7 installed on it. I would like to move (or clone) the whole system to another (in this case smaller) hdd. What is the best and easiest way to do it? Basically I would need ...
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Cloning single disk drive to multiple drives simultaneously
I am looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time.
I have prepared system images on 1TB disks, and it takes almost 2 hours to clone one disk to another, ...
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Disk image of a Windows 2000 NTFS hard drive
I need to create a disk image from a Windows 2000, NTFS formatted, hard drive. This image has to be used to create backup hard drives to replace the original disk in case an emergency situation ...
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Cloning an LVM disk with dd?
I would like to clone a smaller LVM-formatted disk onto a larger one using dd, and boot that disk in the same machine. Do I need to make any special considerations for LVM?
Thanks! Although I ...
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How to copy KVM disk image to LVM
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I'm getting a No space left on device error when doing a dd command. I'm trying to move a KVM qcow2 file to an LVM partition and thought that the LVM partition needed to be the same size as ...
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Looking for fast, minimal, preferrably free disc cloning software
I'm a software developer, and we have to test our application installation and functionality on many Windows operating system versions and languages (XP, Vista, Win7; English, Spanish, Portuguese, ...
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regenerate iso file from running livecd — dd won't run reliably and genisoimage has catch-22s
In the field I need some users to be able to make iso files reliably from a cdrom that is also serving as a mounted LiveCD and so I concocted a manual test case before doing any scripting. The test ...
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Fastest way to migrate Linux data
I'm looking for a fast to migrate Linux installation to another hardware.
As I wrote in another question (http://serverfault.com/questions/110501/unable-to-access-resume-device-in-centos), I moved 2 ...
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ddrescue a non-solaris disk gets I/O error
I am trying to get a disk image of a SCSI disk using ddrescue on Solaris10 (Sparc). The disk is non-solaris, and ddrescue gets an immediate I/O error (as does dd). I used format to label the disk as ...
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No-brainer cloning software?
I was unable to figure out how to use CloneZilla to clone Linux/XP/Vista (XP enters an endless loop with "Autochk - Program not found", and Vista can't boot with "Error 17 - File not found", even ...
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CloneZilla Live vs. PartImage?
For use on a test computer, I need a free cloning tool to save NTFS and ext3 partitions to the same disk, ie. no need to up/download images from a server.
CloneZilla Live and PartImage (available on ...
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Recommended system cloning tool with customizable boot disc?
I am setting up a small computer lab at a school in a small town up in the hills of Panama, where we will be starting with 10 similarly-configured student PCs. My desire is to create a locked-down ...
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Using Clonezilla Server Edition with multiple multicast restore operations
I run a computer refurbishing operation for a local non-profit I am a part of. I have been looking into using Clonezilla to do network-based image-restoration. I am very interested in the multicast ...
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Need to clone a Red Hat Server to replace current drives with larger ones
We need to completely replace a drive in a Red Hat 4 linux box with larger drives, as we have run out of space. We are looking for utilities or applications (Ghost?) - or a process that will allow us ...
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Cloning Windows SBS 2003 to different machines (with different hardware configurations)
I'd like to save time and clone an existing Win 2k3 server to new hardware.
Is this possible / advisable?
Thanks
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What to change after cloning a Linux server?
Let's say I'm cloning a virtual machine containing a Linux server.
What would you advice to change in the clone? I know - it's kind of vague and depends on what services ware installed on linux but ...
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Missing hal.dll After Disk Clone
A friend couldn't seem to get Norton Ghost to clone a disk usably. I suggested using GParted, and (after running chkdsk /f on the NTFS partition - possibly the cause of Norton's problem) took the ...
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Where does Ubuntu store partition UUIDs on disk?
Exactly what part of the disk is a UUID stored on? MBR? Somewhere within the partition? Is it a calculated value, or randomly generated and recorded?
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Partitioning advice for dual boot with Windows XP and two separate Linux installations
Main goals is to have/being:
Windows XP
Main Linux installation
"Some other" Linux installation which I am currently experimenting with.
All three OS installations completely separate (at least to ...
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How to set up disk cloning with dd, netcat and ssh tunnel?
I would like to copy stuff in bulk (reimage disk using dd) with netcat from host A to B via ssh encrypted channel on Linux.
What commands should I type on both ends? Could you please explain what ...
