2009/11/26 Ryan Ralph <ryanralph1...@gmail.com>: > Hi everyone, > > Was just wondering if someone could explain to me how the best way to go > about backing up my setup at the moment. > > What I need to do is do is take a "ghost image" (windows term) of my 120gb > hard drive that ubuntu is currently installed on and then restore it onto > one of my newer 500gb drives. > > I was thinking that I could try using dd, copy the backup to one of the > 500gb drives, then restore it to the other 500gb drive and resize the > partition if required. This seems like it would be quite time consuming. > > Does anyone know a better way? If not could someone please explain what > commands I would need to use for dd?
dd is a traditional method, but in recent years some better tools have come out for this purpose. I'd recommend clonezilla. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
