Fedora 10 harddrive exact cloning?

h2009

h2009

h2009

Associate
Joined
6 Jan 2008
Posts
316
Hi there,
I'm thinking about changing an HDD in my Fedora system to something a little more robust but I was wondering how I would go about making an exact clone of the existing drive which I could simply swap over (without downtime - other than the hardware change).

What I'd like to know is how or what is the best method of doing this?

Thank you.
 
Hi sorry is there no GUI software that can be used. I really don't like the command line in linux because I don't actually understand what i'm doing and I cannot afford to lose the information.
 
Last edited:
Ok I've decided to use dd but its found some bad sectors on the existing driving. What would be the correct synx to use to pass through them?
 
It seems just about everything I'm trying is failing. I'm now attempting ddrescue but its cloning at a speed of less than 1kb (whereas before it was doing around 250mb a sec.


Is there anything else I can do it speed this up?
 
Hi that is right but because I have bad sectors I've run gddrescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb
But the problem is the cloning has really slowed down from 250mb to 1kb.
Does anyone know if I quit the process and restart it will it continue from where it was? What happens if I put it on another computer to recover will it continue?
 
No sorry. Dd failed because of bad sectors, so I loaded gddrescue to bypass the sectors.
The OS is a live cd, so nothing is happening on the orginial disk.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom