Any looked at GParted? On 25/02/2012 8:48 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/02/25 16:07 (GMT-0800) Steven Hess composed:
I am getting ready to do a zypper dup to 12.1 from 11.4 on my main desktop system.
Are you really sure you want to? Does 12.1 have something you need that 11.4 can't provide?
I would like to clone my current / drive to a back up disk (attached via USB). I have used pmagic for this in the past. Is it possible to do this from within the openSUSE 11.4 KDE environment?
A true clone of a running non-DOS system isn't possible. Even if it were, how would you restore it when that time comes?
As Nick wrote rsync is a good strategy. It doesn't result in a true clone, but a functional almost clone that for most people is probably better.
I do true cloning a lot, but never from a running system. I multiboot, so usually I'm cloning partitions, not complete HDs. When I do need to clone a whole HD without using an extra puter or HD, I boot a Knoppix CD or a DOS CD containing the non-free cross-platform partitioning tool I do all partitioning and cloning chores with, DFSee.
When you do a true clone, you wind up with duplicate UUIDs and device labels. Until you're familiar with the problems that creates and how do deal with them, I recommend you avoid true cloning - unless you're sure you'll never need either of the clones to boot while both are installed in the same system at the same time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org