Questions tagged [clone]
Questions related to cloning features or devices.
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How to make a plug and play ubuntu USB drive
Recently, I wanted to try to transfer an ubuntu system from VMware to my USB drive and achieve a plug and play result. There don't seem to be any tutorials online for this type of thing, or the ...
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Managing Linux installation on a fleet of build servers with large code workspaces
Here's what I'd like to do:
Have many Linux servers for building Android Open Source Project and testing those builds using Android virtual device (either Cuttlefish or Goldfish/Emulator)
Have all ...
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Best way to clone SSD to larger SSD with Ubuntu [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu as OS on 256GB SSD and have bought a larger 1TB SSD.
Is Clonezilla a good option to clone SSD?
Will Clonezilla use same size on new SSD and leave remaining GB’s as unallocated space?
Is ...
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Add a new 16TB HDD and transfer the OS to it
I have 2x 4 TB and I bought another one of 16TB. I mounted it with the following commands:
cd /mnt/
mkdir data2
blkid /dev/sdc
fsck.ext4 /dev/sdc
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/data2
lsblk
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How to Make a Bootable Clone
I have a working system with a USB drive attached. I want to clone the internal drive to the USB drive. That much I know how to do. My hangup is making that USB drive bootable. it starts to boot but ...
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Why Does a Win10 Drive Cloned with DD or GParted Have GRUB?
I have a desktop computer with Windows 10 installed on its sole internal (NVMe) drive. I boot this machine with Ubuntu 22.04, installed on a USB drive. In Ubuntu, I use GParted to copy partitions from ...
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Can't clone nVME ssd drive because it is split into 2 drive paritions?
first of all sorry if I do not explain very well or make any mistakes in my syntax.
I want to clone my ubuntu nVME disk but I am having a problem.
I have ubuntu installed on 1 nVME ssd disk when I ...
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clone PCIe NVME containing Linux partition in dual boot system - any advice?
I have a dual boot system - Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Windows 11 on regular SSD(2.5 inches) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on PCIe NVME Gen 1 - 512 GB. As PCIE NVME prices has come down and my usage of ...
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Triple booting Windows and 2 installations of Ubuntu 22.04, cloning the ubuntu installs
My issue seems to be a bit specific. I have 3 partitions for OS installs. Windows 11 is on one, and Ubuntu 22.04 is on the other. I have a 3rd partition the exact size as the Ubuntu, and would like to ...
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Clone separate / and home to larger drive
I currently have 23.04 installed on a 500Gb SSD, with separate root (50Gb) and Home (450Gb). Both partitions are filling up so I plan to get a larger SSD.
If I create two partitions on the new SSD (...
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where git clone stored files
Hi I cloned https://github.com/hackerpain/domaining and can't find it in my Windows, the reason I want to find it is that it has a .txt file and I want to modify it.
I use Ubuntu, and I have a ...
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How to clone a virtual machine (.vdi) to a physical system?
I've spent 3 weeks trying to solve this, but to no avail. I'm aware of the many posts on this topics.
I've already read and tried at least:
Migrate from a virtual machine (VM) to a physical system
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How do I migrate Ubuntu 22.04 from a 1TB to 500GB SSD?
I would like to migrate from a 1TB to 500GB SSD. I believe less than 100GB are used (Home Assistant via Docker was installed). I have seen options such as dd and Clonezilla.
I'm aware that dd does not ...
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How to restore my lost home, documents, programs and settings after reinstalling Ubuntu 20.04?
Ubuntu newbie here looking for help please to restore my lost /home, programs and settings, which is now in a state like a fresh first time install of Ubuntu, i.e. all my old documents, pictures and ...
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Git clone - personal access tokens
I have generated my personal token and it is a classic token. When I paste it into the terminal to clone my repository, the terminal is asking for a password. How do I access the password?
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Ubuntu boot option keeps coming back after being deleted
I cloned a windows drive to a dell laptop that was using Ubuntu but it keeps trying to boot to Ubuntu. Went into bios and deleted all Ubuntu boot options but when I go back into bios after reboot they ...
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How to clone a bios_grub partition?
I want to create a clone of my SSD. My partition table looks like this:
However when using Clonezilla (which uses Partclone) in the dd mode, it fails to clone the first 1MB bios_grub partition (BIOS ...
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Impossible to duplicate monitor on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a Dell laptop equipped with an Nvidia graphics card. When I connect my computer to a video projector at my university, it works fine. However, when I want to clone/duplicate the screens (have ...
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Cloning an Ubuntu 22.04 instance that uses a compact flash drive seems to lead to an empty /boot/grub directory
We have an Ubuntu 22.04 setup that runs and works fine. When we clone the compact flash drive and put into an identical system it fails to boot with a file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found error ...
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Best noob friendly way to clone SSD with ubuntu
I'm trying to clone an SSD with Ubuntu and some other programs on it. I want to make an exact copy and not just copy the partition. What's a good way to do this? Anyone know any good youtube ...
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How to clone system drive
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed on 860 EVO M.2 500GB SSD drive.
Single boot os.
On last system re-boot there was a message at the bottom of the post screen:
"WARNING! Your HDD/SDD might crash at ...
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How can I make an exact clone of my Ubuntu 22.04 partition for periodic backup and restoration and Is it possible using the included "Disks" Utility?
I have two drives setup as follows:
My goal is to boot into a Linux 22.04 install on the first drive pictured located on partition labelled "Admin-1", and use the "Disks" utility ...
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Cloning to larger drive, resizing partion to fill
I have an Ubuntu 20.04.3 system which started out as a curiosity and I used a 120 GB SSD I had laying around to build it. Then I started self hosting things on it (mostly Docker images) and now I'm at ...
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How can I clone Ubuntu OS disk from an existing azure virtual machine scale set to a new VM in azure?
Our client has a azure virtual machine scale set which is based on Ubuntu default image Ubuntu server 18.04. I want to create a new VM for them in which OS disk can have all software that are ...
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How to imaging/cloning the entire Ubuntu system on a server, and restore it on another server?
I have an Ubuntu system installed on a hosting server, and I spent a lot of time to configure and install programs and requirements in the system that I need in my work..
I don't want to repeat the ...
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Cloning Ubuntu to new SSD
There are a few questions on how to migrate Ubuntu to a new SSD, but either the posts are old or I could not understand them. In an expectation that there is an easier newer solution, I am posting my ...
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How can I clone my Ubuntu drive to another machine?
I have a project set up on my Ubuntu on Windows 11, and it has a lot of dependencies that took quite a while to set up. I'd like to move to another Windows 11 machine. Where do I even start? Thanks ...
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Clone a 500GB internal hard disk to 256gb internal SSD
I just added a new 256GB SSD in the place of my 500GB HDD and I used a caddy to add the hdd to the laptop in place of a CD Drive. My files including the OS i.e. Ubuntu is currently on my old HDD, how ...
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Need help installing a new boot drive in a second slot
I have a UEFI laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad P72) with multiple internal NVMe drive slots. I currently have a documents and media drive in slot 0, and a boot drive in slot 1.
Ubuntu 20.04 and my various ...
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Timeshift --clone console using
I can't run system clone via the Timeshift utility. Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax?
user@ubuntuserver:~$ sudo timeshift --clone
[sudo] password for user:
/dev/sdb1 is mounted at: /run/timeshift/...
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How can I clone a dual-boot with Windows 10 and Linux?
I have been experimenting with cloning dual boots, with mixed success.
Acronis True Image successfully will clone a Windows 10 installation, but all Linux (Ubuntu base) OS's are broken.
Similarly, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Cloning
I have a server with 2x EPYC 7402's with Ubuntu 20.04 set up exactly the way I need to run some processing code. I recently got a new sever with 2x EPYC 7F72's. I matched the bios settings as best I ...
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Lost all files by using dd [duplicate]
I did get a new ssd and tried doing duplicate of the old ssd into the one, usind the dd command, but after finishing progressing the 250 Gb, everything from old and new ssd just disappeared.
This is ...
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Clone The Entire Laptop SSD to Another SSD
I just want to ask if is it possible to clone the entire system to a new one?
I want to change my SSD to a bigger one, what if I don't want to re-install it?
How to make it possible?
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How to unify /home and /, placing home back into the root partition, clone the drive and put it in a new machine?
I've bought a new machine. This --> Move separate /home partition to the default configuration /home folder is the first part of what I want to do - I think.
The new machine is a NUC and has one ...
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create clone with dd to another drive
So I want to backup what I have done to Raspian using my Ubuntu laptop and followed the advice at the below link. so using this command...
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~/sd-card-copy.img bs=1M status=...
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Syspreping an Ubuntu image
Is there a way to make a capture-ready Ubuntu image? something like Sysprep for Windows, where you remove all the user-specific data from the image (like user accounts, passwords, etc ...) to make a '...
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How to use dd to clone single drive to raid1?
Running dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/md126 is taking some time so it seems like it's working but I am not sure what else may need to be done after to make the system bootable.
When trying to mount /dev/...
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Mass production for Ubuntu systems
I'm working on a project that is based upon an industrial PC. It runs Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop.
Right now I finished the development and I have a PC with a ready-to-use environment:
customized Ubuntu ...
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Moving entire installation to a new hard drive
This question is probably super common, but my situation might not be :) let's see..
I have a PC tower running as a home server using Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS (NAS, minecraft, etc random stuff). I want ...
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how to clone sd card without mbr with ubuntu?
I clone an sd card (32Go) and I copy it to a sd card of different size (64Go).
I use those commands:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=Debian.img status=progress
sudo dd if=Debian.img of=/dev/sdc status=progress
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Proper Incremental Backup/cloning Solution for an Ubuntu 20.04 LEMP Server on Raspberry Pi (and turning clones into bootable ISO's on the fly)
BACKGROUND
I still consider myself sort of a noob when it comes to setting up server. So when answering this question, please give as much detail as possible in your answers.
ENVIRONMENT
I run a LEMP ...
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How to access a cloned VirtualBox Ubuntu Server via SSH to get a different Address
I installed a headless Ubuntu server build on VirtualBox, and once I fully prepared it to work, I cloned it to have a second, exactly the same, instance. However, the clone shares it's CMD SSH access ...
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Ubuntu 21.04 Cannot Boot From External USB HDD
My filesystem layout, internal is sda and external is sdb:
sda
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Safe way to boot test a clone of my internal drive?
I’m on Ubuntu 21.04 on my laptop (MSI Bravo 15 Ryzen 7 4800H 15.6" 16GB A4DDR-212IN with 2 internal nvme drive slots).
I’m regularly using Clonezilla to clone my main internal drive to an ...
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Lubuntu 18.04 VM - can't edit network connections after changing IP address
I cloned a Lubuntu 18.04 VM (running on ESXi). When I started the cloned copy I edited the network connections (using the menu in the lower right corner of the screen) and changed the IPV4 IP address ...
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Ubuntu Server 18.04.5 decrease used hard drive
I have a little server running at home, for several years now, but now it have some web apps running, and the old sata hdd drive it's causing some problems, mainly too slow to handle the requests and ...
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cloned Ubuntu 20.10 installation on same hardware fails at boot
I have more than 100 units of the same HW I need to prepare for our product delivery.
All of them are the very same HW (celeron N platform, 32GB SSD) and come with a standard Ubuntu 20.10 installation ...
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Create Ubuntu Installation USB or DVD from my current Ubuntu Installation with all my apps/settings etc
I have an operating Ubuntu installation and I would like to create an installation USB or DVD that will include all my apps and settings from my current installation. Is this possible?
Ubuntu version ...
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