On 5/10/24 14:27, Linden wrote:
I have used clonezilla and DD for both back up and restore. Some where I have
an interactive bash scripted I wrote for using DD. In the past when going from
a small drive to a new larger drive the most reliable way I found was to use DD
to clone and move the data and the use gparted to expand the partitions. Not
the most elegant solution but has worked for me in the past. Just a thought
might be worth looking at.
I've considered that myself, but it feels sorta kludgy to me. But done
in that sequence it should work. I'm in the middle of a different
$$project ATM so it will be at least a month before I get to that. Thanks.
On May 10, 2024 9:49:31 a.m. PDT, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On 5/10/24 11:25, Chris Albertson wrote:
Rsync will copy data at the file system level. I think the OP wants to copy
the partition tables and boot sector. But rsync can copy across a network
and is a decent way to make a backup of your data.
Clonzilla loks like it can work. I’ve always used “dd” because it is a two
letter command and very easy to rember the exact spelling, and it just works.
Clonzilla might be better for people who find it hard to type in long complex
commands like “dd” and prefer a menu-based system.
All good advice. Choose your favorite. The one I miss is the one that can take
an arm64 install, with all the additions to do a job, and back it up over the
network to a file that only the total used on that arm64 system. one that can
then be copied to a fresh u-sd card of much greater capacity, and which will
then on first boot, expand the partitions to use all of the new u-sd cards
capacity. I've been using 64G cards and had had no losses. 16G cards are big
enough but have a lifetime of around a year. I have some 128G I'll use for the
next install.
The theory is, the more surplus capacity the card has, the better the cards own
software can maintain it. Power usage is about 25 watts total for the pi and
nonitor when the lathe is powered down, so that rpi4 is never turned off, it
even has a small ups that holds it up well while the kohler 20kw is starting, a
black time of around 8 seconds.
So I'm looking for a dd like command that will do that over my local network. cd /
&& sudo du -h says there is 6.2G in actual use. But there is a 256G buildbot
drive not currently mounted but about 70% full, so that total would be considerably
more.
So what utility can make me a bootable image thats only 6.5G that I can store
here, dd to a new card that will boot that pi and expand the file system? And
come up capable of running linuxcnc with all the stuff I've written in the last
decade. That is the $64 question. That seems like the ideal backup system for
all the architectures here. And 1, 2T SSD could hold it all.
On May 10, 2024, at 4:03 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On 5/10/24 06:11, andrew beck wrote:
hey everyone
a bit off topic here
i have my main laptop that i want to clone the hard drive on it for a
identical laptop for a backup
this is used for running the linuxcnc machines and programming drawing etc
anyway just want to know what software people prefer for disk cloning i
have never done it before and i'm sure someone on here is a expert on it
cheers
andrew
rsync can do that but please read the man page carefully. It can bite you just
as easily as it can help you. I use it, but will not call myself an expert.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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