-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2018-01-14 at 12:19 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
Prepping for 42.2 to 42.3 update (yes, I'm actually going to try -- rather than clean install), I want to dump an image of my current 42.2 system to a spare 1T drive. I never do this (other than brute force dd images or shove the spare drive in an use parted to copy partitions).
What is the current favorite (FOSS) disk imaging utility being used. I'm not looking for long - HOWTO answers, just a project name to go look at.
(If I was just doing a clean install, I'd just use a new drive :)
Plain dd :-)
Actually, I'd use dd_rescue, or rather, dd_rhelp. If you use this method, don't forget to regenerate uuid's for the cloned
On 14/01/2018 11:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: partitions otherwise you might have mounting problems if they're on the same box.
Of course, but not something one does for a backup. Do the copy, remove the disk :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpbl8MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VYuQCeN5vWxgwoC2/g7UIokB1z9B9S 6qUAn2vtAKKPqSNvIAGZosGrSdc9YHDW =pDiQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----