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Re: [LUG] Cloning Drives

 

Thanks for the advice Simon. I think I'll use rsync because that is what I am hoping to do.

Rich


On 7 September 2017 at 23:46, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Depends a lot on what's on the drive, and if it can be unmounted.

When I think of cloning I think of using DD to copy the contents of each block, but the disk needs to be idle. You can even do it with live CD.

When I want to copy a disk's contents on Linux and keep it in sync I use rsync.

What's on it, what's the copy for?




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