Jon The drive is 500Gb SATA and I can hook up several.
I 'man dd' on the old Ubuntu 8.04LTS and seems to be just a file copy service. But I will try your suggestion when I boot off a LiveCD as this makes sense not to disturb the Hot drive. Glenn On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:44 PM Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/05/2020 09:07 PM, Glenn Edwards wrote: > > All, > > > > I have EMC2 2.3.0 running on Ubuntu 8.04LTS and it is driving a desk-top > > CNC machine. I know, pretty old stuff. But it is running fine and I am > > starting a project that will last a month, or so. I just noticed the > > hard-drive is making noise/vibration and wonder if it will make it > through. > > > > I think it would be great if I could make an image of the disk and copy > it > > onto another. That way I could swap it out quickly and finish the > > project. Is this doable with an old OS? I have everything from WinXp to > > Win10 and Ubuntu 8.04 to 16.04 running in the shop, so I can use another > > computer to make and copy the disk images. Any and all suggestions are > > welcome! Thanks. > > > So, is this a parallel ATA or SATA drive? Does it have > another drive port on the motherboard? > If so, get a new drive with the right interface, connect it > and look up the procedure for cloning a > drive on the net. There are a couple ways to do it. But, > as long as the new drive is as large or > larger than the old one, it is generally a single dd copy > operation. You can generally copy a > drive while the system is running, but it might be better to > boot off the live CD and do the > copy from the live system. > > This will copy the whole disk, including the partition > table, boot block and all the partitions. > > sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > There are some other options to copy just the boot and > partition table, and then copy > the file systems individually. If the file systems are > mostly empty space, you may be able > to speed it up by just copying the boot/part. table, and > then creating new partitions and > copying the file systems with cp. You will then need to run > lilo or grub to refresh the > pointers to the kernel and loader into the bootloader. I > know how to do this, but this is > getting into guru territory. > > Jon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
