Re: clone a disk

2015-07-20 Thread Simon Hobson
Cal Sawyer wrote: 2 lines with a whole load of quoted text. Please bottom post, and when replying to a digest message - as a very minimum reset the subject correctly and trim *ALL* unnecessary text. > This sounds like a job for Relax and Recover: > > http://relax-and-recover.org/ Not one I'

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Thierry Granier wrote: > the "backup" is created on the source machine > i don't see how to get this backup on the destination machine and how to boot > on this machine (for this backup) By specifying "user@address:path" you are telling rsync to copy the files ot a remote machine - that's how

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would add --numeric-ids and --itemize-changes. Up to you if you need --xattrs or --acls. Also, I prefer to do backups by filesystem so I would add - --one-file-system and run one rsync per filesystem. This means you don't have to exclude things li

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is good info for backing up the MBR (which includes the partition table). However, if you are going to image a partition use either ddrescue (does the same thing but has a status screen, can resume, and works around read errors) or partimage (has

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Larry Irwin (gmail)
Hi TG, You can keep an up-to-date copy of the files/folders/pipes/etc. in the 100GB space using rsync, but not a true clone of the partition. To get a true clone of the boot partition, you'd need to boot from a rescue CD, mount the other machine's 100GB space and dd the boot partition device to

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Simon Hobson
Thierry Granier wrote: > i have a machine A with 2 disks 1 et 2 running Debian Jessie > on 1 is the system and the boot and the swap > on 2 different partitions like /home /opt ETC. > > i have a machine B with 1 disk running kali-linux and 100G free > > Can i clone the disk 1 of machine A o

clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Thierry Granier
Hello i have a machine A with 2 disks 1 et 2 running Debian Jessie on 1 is the system and the boot and the swap on 2 different partitions like /home /opt ETC. i have a machine B with 1 disk running kali-linux and *100G free* Can i clone the disk 1 of machine A on the 100G free on machine B w