Questions tagged [clone]
Questions related to cloning features or devices.
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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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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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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.
The question:
- is there ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Cloning 16Gb USB Lubuntu drive to 16Gb Micro SD card - "no space left on device"
I am trying to clone a persistent Lubuntu 16.10 installation on a 16Gb Sandisk USB memory stick to a Sandisk 16Gb Micro SD card. I did this:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdimage.img bs=4M
dd if=sdimage.img of=/...
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Can't see SSD after dd from HDD to SSD
I recently purchased an SSD to upgrade my 6 year old laptop to use for school. I just spent a lot of time customizing Ubuntu to how I like it and I didn't want to do it again, so I thought I could ...
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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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Fastest method to clone one drive to another
I have some constraints that I am working with:
-The server that I want to clone is currently at a distant facility that we do not have much access to.
-We do not have internet access to said server....
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Ubuntu Desktop 16 to duplicate/clone a running terminal console
Sometimes I want to clone/duplicate a running terminal console so that I can work on the current thread/process without having to re-run all executed commands from the beginning. E.g. running a Flask ...
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Copying an Ubuntu on VMWare to Real Computer without any lose [duplicate]
Situation
I have an Ubuntu 15.10 with programs, themes, apps, settings etc. I've installed.
But I have installed to my Ubuntu unnecessary things for real computer too. (like VMWare tools and drivers....
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Grub boot error on cloned virtual machine
While using virt-manager and connected to a Qemu/KVM Hypervisor, I cloned a virtual machine of an Ubuntu server installation, version 16.0.4 if it matters. When I try to boot the cloned virtual ...
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Disk changes device path during copy, from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdd
I'm trying to clone the internal hard disk of my computer. I've booted using the 16.04 Live USB image and I can see 3 disks:
/dev/sda # Internal SSD, copy source
/dev/sdb # Live USB
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I just cloned my HDD to my SSD with Clonezilla and my boot time is much slower than on my HDD, can anyone help?
I did a partition to partition clone. I have a Samsung 840 Evo. I've looked around, and here's my dmesg report.
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Clone Server to home windows computer
My goal is to clone my ubuntu 12.04.5 - Server and send the files compressed to my windows computer over the internet. I am using ssh/putty to connect to my server.
How do I compress and send the ...
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how to clone Ubuntu with multiple disk with RAID 1 configuration to a new system with almost same hardware
I'm wondering if it's possible to clone a pre-configured Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system to a new system with almost the same hardware. I had some experience cloning a single drive setup but not multiple ...
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dd command clones 10MB and stops
I am trying to clone old windows 8 HDD disk to new SSD. Both have the same capacity: 250GB
The problem is that dd command stops quickly after copying 10MB only.
Here is the output:
root@x72j:~# dd ...
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Mirror Hard Drive To New Hard Drive
I am needing to copy my exact hard drive set-up to a different hard drive, so I can place this drive in a different PC and it be as if I was in front of the original PC. Both Hard drives will still ...
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How do I create an ISO (or similar) DVD of an Ubuntu setup on VirtualBox
I need to create a DVD of a working Ubuntu, 14.04 LTS, with several software additions. I have "installed" the Ubuntu ISO on VirtualBox, updated everything, as well as added additional software items. ...
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Problem after cloning disk
I cloned my hdd with 14.04 on it to an ssd (to use the ssd as new sytem disk).
During cloning, the ssd was mounted as /dev/sdb1 at the point /media/backup .
Once cloned, I replaced the hdd by the ssd. ...
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Shifting Ubuntu HDD to new PC
I have a relatively very old PC: Compaq m2000 (Intel Celeron M 360
) with just 256 MB of RAM. I was thinking of installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a portable drive on a newer PC and then using it on this ...
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Cloning Encrypted SSD to larger SSD
I currently have a 128GB SSD. Its using encryption that comes with Ubuntu.
What's the best way to clone this to another SSD that's bigger and then expand the partition to be bigger to fit this new ...
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Cloning an SD card to another in Ubuntu using a single SD card reader
I have an SD card which has the image of Raspbian jessy for raspberry pi.
I currently have only a single SD card reader on my computer, and I would like to clone this SD card to another SD card only ...
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How to migrate ubuntu 15.10 to an other disk
I am using ubuntu 15.10 and run it out of my usb3 stick (which has 2 partitions one / and one swap) I want to migrate my ubuntu installation (not only the programs I installed but all the settings ...
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How to clone entire hard-disk into new one?
I was use dd command to copy my 500GB hard-disk into my new 1TB hard disk.
After 9 hours system display message everything was successfully copied but I can't display any data into my new hard disk. I ...
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Migrating Ubuntu 14.04 from persistent live USB to laptop
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on a persistent Live 8GB USB stick. It works fine, I've installed a lot of software and set up a PostgreSQL database as well as a few git repositories.
Is it possible to ...
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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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Desparate: how can I clone my Ubuntu USB harddisk so that I really can boot from the new clone
I'm quite new to this, but in the past few weeks I've been able to install Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on a Ventura USB hard disk (240 Gb), and after a lot of issues (getting Citrix Receiver, Adobe flash, etc. ...
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Enlarge disk partition after cloning [duplicate]
I have SSD disk 30GB with Ubuntu installation. It is too small, because I have there some servers and projects. Currently, there is about 800MB free space.
I already bought new SSD disk with 120GB. I ...
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Ubuntu to have multiple clones on one external drive
I recently backed up my entire Ubuntu 64bit 14.04 operating system using Clonezilla onto an exteranl hard drive, and wish to make a second clone, as my system has been updated. I want to keep both ...
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Trying to understand commands affecting unmounted drives
I'm currently trying to understand some code I have found which unmounts a drive but then does operations onto it (which seems quite strange to me).
The situation is as follows:
I have a mount named /...
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Auto installer for vps
Scenario is:
I have a vps running ubuntu having nginx and other stuff
I want to make it into an autoinstaller and probably save it online somewhere, so that it can be accessed via curl, wget, apt-get ...
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Clone ubuntu server to another machine using Clonezilla
I am trying to clone an Ubuntu Server 14.04 installation on another machine because I don't want to do a fresh install.
I downloaded Clonezilla on the Ubuntu Server machine and followed the steps to ...
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How do I automate nightly disk imaging?
I do a lot of development work, and sometimes this means messing around with drivers, non-official packages, and boot settings.
I want to start automating nightly disk imaging so no matter what ...
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Why does my TP link adapter disconnects from the AP when I change the mac address of wlan1
I have TP-Link TL-WN722N WiFi Adapter(Atheros Chip).
I have tried changing mac address of using macchanger and some inbuilt commands.
But every time I connect to the AP, the Wifi Adapter disconnects ...
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Clone Ubuntu server on different machine
I have ubuntu server configured and working properly. Now I want to migrate exactly the same settings including all my data to another machine that could possibly be a different machine. Is there any ...
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how can I pull a file from bitbucket
I'm new to bitbucket and Ubuntu. I just created a project and a Java file on bitbucket. I was able to clone before adding the file. Once I added the file, I ran git pull - but ubuntu threw a fatal ...