Questions tagged [clone]
Questions related to cloning features or devices.
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Cloning Windows 8.1 with Ubuntu dd
Will there be any problem/caveat when I have a hda disk with Windows 8.1 system and with a bootable flash disk I enter under Ubuntu system this command:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M
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How to copy a bootable NTFS partition from one physical hard drive to another with Ubuntu?
I have a USB flash drive with Ubuntu 11.10 installed that I would like to use for the following task:
I have a hard drive with 4 partitions. The second one is formatted with NTFS and contains a fully ...
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Rsync copying excluded directories
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I am trying to make a very comprehensive backup of my Ubuntu system. I am running the following rsync command:
sudo rsync -aAEHSXxv --progress --delete --exclude={/home/sterlingbutters/...
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How to clone a hard drive to an image that I can open later?
I need to make a (preferably) mountable image of an 80GB Hdd, and store it on another hard drive. Is there some way that I can do this without losing data?
Thanks for the answers I've received so far....
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Unviewable partitions after cloning with dd
I cloned a 250GB SSD to a 500GB one using this command:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
The cloning process seem to have gone well looking at the progress. ...
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Transferring data between drives of dissimilar capacities
I have a 80 GB hard drive which contains a copy of Ubuntu and a total of about 20 GB of data. I would like to transfer this data over to a SSD that is 60 GB in capacity.
I've looked at tools such as ...
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Error appear when booting Clonezilla
I've put a Clonezilla boot image on a USB drive then when I boot Clonezilla I get the below screen then Clonzezilla opens normally. I wonder if this will affect my cloning process?
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how to copy all applications from one linux machine to another
I wonder how I can copy all applications from one linux machine to another? I have a "source" machine (Ubuntu 16.04) which has all the configurations, setup and many complex application installed on ...
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rsync for backup: Do I need troublesome user/1000/gvfs
I would like to use rsync as a backup solution; I am syncing the contents of my machine to an external hard-drive. If my machine crashes, I want to restore another machine as close as possible to the ...
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Things to do after cloning smaller ssd to larger ssd in ubuntu
I cloned a 500GB ssd to a 1050GB ssd but I was having many issues later. I only cloned the partitions I need then later resized them. The swap partition is the only one that I didn't clone because I ...
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How to restore Ubuntu in a new disk
I have a dual boot system with windows 10 and Ubuntu. I would like to backup and restore only the functioning Ubuntu into a new disk,without windows. How should I proceed? I have used clonezilla and ...
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Cloning a Ubuntu installation (including repositories, held packages & keys)
From How to list all installed packages we learn how to backup list of installed packages.
From How to See list of Repository? we learn how to backup list of installed repositories.
But how do we ...
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problem with using git using private key
sorry if this question seems so easy but I'm new with UBUNTU and I still couldn't figure that out.
I've been given a private key with password to clone and install a software from a repository using ...
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Clone Ubuntu with openssh-server, Still asking for password
I have a Ubuntu virtual machine with ssh installed. (Ubuntu 12 with GUI)
I clone it and renew the clone IP address.
I want that the Master can have ssh to the clone without asking password.
I had set ...
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Clonezilla vs. FOG on Ubuntu
I am hopeful that someone in this community will be able to help me. I am stumbling my way through my first experience with any form of Linux computing. Since 2003 I have used Windows and Symantec's ...
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Easiest way to back up my entire (encrypted) system, and restore later?
I have to ship my laptop in for repairs, and they warn that my HD might come back empty. What's the easiest way for me to back up my entire HD (which is encrypted, I might add) to a USB stick or some ...
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xubuntu custom read only image
I'm using xubuntu mostly with the read-only default image (without installation).
I was wondering if it's possible to tweak that same exact default xubuntu image and use that newly created image as ...
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How can I clone a hard disk to a smaller SSD?
I have a hard drive in my laptop with a windows and an ubuntu partition. I got an SSD to replace my hard drive, but it has a slightly lower capacity. I've already partitioned the SSD to the sizes I ...
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Using DD to create a partial backup of a larger drive [closed]
I have a 1.4TiB drive which has Nextcloud & normal Mint 18.2 distro stuff on it. Now using 25% of capacity... and would like a backup of this. Am using dd to copy (very slow) but my question is ...
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After cloning Ubuntu, how do I reinstall GRUB on a dedicated partition with RAID 1 setup?
Since my development server got into Kernel Panic, I ended up reinstalling it. I thought instead of manually installing everything again, I will get a more alike configuration to the production server ...
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stuck on a github build
i would like to install this github program.
https://github.com/ChrisLuck/ut71dmm
made directory (in home) ut71dmm
unzipped the downloaded github .zip file into that directory
tried to followed the ...
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How to duplicate a tab in Firefox?
Is it possible to clone/duplicate tab in Firefox?
Basicaly, the other new tab should contain the same history of the tab I'm trying to clone.
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Copy an image of a disk to an external drive
Is am trying to make a copy of a file structure (& an image) from a drive that I have identified as
/dev/sda
(Contains /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda5)
The drive identifying itself as /dev/sdc1 which ...
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error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200 MiB
I am trying to install this toolchain in ubuntu 14.04 running on vmware
My computer is a part of a network and it is configured as remote access.
This error is showing up:
git clone https://github....
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Best way to clone an installation (copying to identical hardware)
Kind-of like this question but slightly different (I think), in that I have 6 identical Acer Aspire Revo R3610 machines. One is (almost) configured to my requirements - when I'm done preparing it I'd ...
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Clone desktop Ubuntu on a pendrive to run on another machine [duplicate]
I would like to clone my desktop Ubuntu onto a pendrive so that it could be installed onto another machine with all my settings and files.
Is it possible?
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dd image my internal hdd to my external hdd
How to take image from my internal hdd to external one using dd ??
This is my hdd info
root@PartedMagic:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
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Clone LVM based installation to larger drive and extend root partition to use new space
There are a few similar questions online but I haven't seen any that cover the exact scenario. This is a question and answer in one to a problem that took me several hours to work out.
I wanted to ...
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How to clone a physical disk installed with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to another physical disk?
Intend to fully clone a physical disk installed with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system to another physical disk. The original is booted from grub with an other disk which is also installed with an ...
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How to clone a Windows 7 hdd into a smaller hdd?
As above. Source is a 320gb hdd with 2 partitions (one is hidden. Laptop recovery partition). Source has no additional software issued except from whatever came from the factory. Destination is a ...
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What is the best way to clone a disk?
My guess is that dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 will work out well for me. I have some concerns though:
What is the ideal bs size?
Is it advisable to use a live cd? I simply don't want to include ...
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Clone disk to encrypted one
The scenario:
- i have a SSD EVO 850 with several partitions, all of them with no encryption and running xubuntu 14.04.
- i have another identical disk, same model and size.
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- is there ...
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Swapping hard drive on identical boards
I have a number of identical PC boards with SSD.
I built an Ubuntu system on the first one and set it up as I needed.
I then used Clonezilla to clone the first SSD and copied this image to the other ...
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DD vs cat for forensic works (carving in USB)
I'm using the foremost,photorec and other tools for recovering data.
What is the best way for cloning the USD or HDD for recovery files?
Which one should I use dd or cat or ddrescue?
If you ...
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I want to create LiveCD bootable usb 1TB hard drive from existing system
I want to create a bootable copy of existing ubuntu system on external hard drive, do not need data, tried Pinguy Buiolder which creates iso but when I create new system with Etcher or Startup Disk ...
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Cloned Ubuntu won't launch without original drive [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on a partition of an external HDD, with bootloader placed in my sata SSD /dev/sda (Win10)
I wanted to clone the linux system for use on another pc, I succeeded in ...
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Cloning hard drive question
I run Win XP and Ubuntu on my desktop. The HDD that Windows is installed on appears to be getting ready to die (loud noises).
I'd like to clone it but don't know how it would affect my Linux.(...
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Abysmal I/O performance after upgrade to 16.04
I have a semi-regular task I do on my Ubuntu 16.04 workstation: It has a second disk with Windows 7 on it. It basically is a bare installation, which I sometimes boot up and let Windows Update run. ...
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Use cat instead of cp in differently sized partitions [duplicate]
I have understood that is impossible to use dd or cat for copy all data of a partition to another partition with differences in sizes, Is this statement correct?, example
2 HDD, the first /dev/sdd1 (...
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Backup without free space in not recognized partition [duplicate]
I am trying to make a complete backup of an HDD partition to /dev/sdd (100gb), but I want to only take the contained data (50gb).
I can't access the internal data in the HDD for putting zeros with dd ...
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What is the best way to clone HDD partitions of differences sizes? [duplicate]
I have two HDDs: the first of 150gb (/dev/sdc) with 30gb in use, the second of 100gb (/dev/sdd). There are sdc1 and sdd1 partitions with the same format.
I want to clone the 30gb from the first disk ...
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Cloning a Dual Boot Drive with EZ Gig4
Has anyone had success cloning a dual boot (Windows 7 + 16.04) system to a SSD with EZ Gig 4?
This question is raised because normally writing to a SSD is a ~40MB/Sec process, however, the observed ...
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How To Clone Entire HD With Multiple OSes to SSD
After searching & reading through many answers & online results, Im posting my particular question below.
I have a 250GB Hard Drive which has two OSes (Win10 & Ubuntu) & a storage ...
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Unable to clone git repository [Error in pull function]
I'm trying to install kali linux tools using a script called Katoolin. But everytime I try to clone the repository, it displays the following error:
prabal@prabal-desktop:~$ git clone https://github....
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GIt - Can't clone on wifi network alone
I have a wifi router at my home.When i connected my laptop to Wifi and try to clone i'm getting this error:
git clone https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Dialer.git
Cloning into '...
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Make a snapshot of Ubuntu for future installs [duplicate]
When we install Ubuntu, we get a lot of softwares pre-installed. Just like this, is it possible for me to install Ubuntu, then install all my required softwares and packages, setup my desktop and ...
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Replacing HDD with a smaller SSD [closed]
I have a dual boot system (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7 64 bit).
I boot from a HDD that contains both operating systems and use another 1tb HDD for data.
I want to replace the HDD containing the OS's ...
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Clonezilla Fails to clone 16.04 /16.10
Clonezilla 2.4.7-8-i686 failed to (full disk) clone:
Laptop: SSD with 16.04
Desktop: Dual-boot Win7+16.10. 3 attempts: freezes each time
Clonezilla has been my go-to for Windows imaging. Has ...
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How can I image an embedded ubuntu device over the network?
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I have an embedded system running Ubuntu 12.04 which I need to upgrade to patch some security vulnerabilities. The changes will include upgrading to ubuntu 14.04, changing a few ...
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Cloning running drive
I have a Linux machine I would like to clone, but I have to use it frequently and cannot take it down to use CloneZilla or other software that requires booting off of a live media. Is there anyway I ...
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