[olug] [OT] Drive copy utilities?

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

trinity rescue kit
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

ddrescue is included, use gparted if you want to expand your partition
in to the new area.

On Nov 7, 2007 11:46 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007 6:51 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On 11/7/07, Kevin Hinze <kevinhinze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Howdy folks,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a standalone disk copy utility for imaging one hard
> > > drive
> > > to
> > > another. For this particular application, I am using PATA drives. The
> > > source
> > >
> > > drive will be ~250 GB while the dest drive will be ~400 GB.
> > >
> > > I want something OS independent, so something that is a standalone
> > > bootable
> > > CD
> > > is highly preferred. Shareware and freeware is great but I am also
> > > looking
> > > at
> > > commercial software, something akin to Ghost. As an aside, Ghost might
> > > be
> > > too
> > > confusing for some end-users to easily follow instructions, but maybe
> > > not.
> > >
> > > While a roll-it-yourself Linux solution comes to mind for many folks,
> > > I'm
> > > not
> > > looking at this as a primary option, unless I've missed some great Linux
> > > project out there to do just this.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > ~Kevin Hinze
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> >
> >
> > I believe all the following bootable CDs SysRescCD.org, RipLinux, knoppix
> > among others include these utilitites.
> > // find the device names of your harddrives and harddrive partitions
> > fdisk -lu
> >
> > //Use disk duplicator to copy 4k bytes at a time
> > // For more on dd, google the following
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=4096
> >
> > // if the drive is failing, dd_rescue will not error out on a bad read and
> > goes back to previously unreadable blocks to try to read them again.  It can
> > also read in reverse.  i am not sure ghost goes nearly as far in recovering
> > bad data.
> >
>
> i have used ddrescue about 18x in the last month so i don't know how i
> recommended dd_rescue  ---- yes, the "dd with the _underscore_ rescue" is a
> different but similar program to ddrescue.  Basic functionality is the same,
> but i hope i didn't mess someone up regardless.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > If dd is too diffcult (the experimental user may overwrite the wrong
> > drive) for the end user, g4u  (ghost for unix) had a gui.  That FOG link
> > looks good.  FOG or SysRescCD over PXE looks to be convenient.  Should know
> > in a hour or so.
> >
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