On Sunday, 18 December 2016 17:18:17 UTC+11, dumbcyber wrote: > On Thursday, 15 December 2016 01:07:12 UTC+11, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 2016-12-14 03:19, dumbcyber wrote: > > > Hello, I am running Qubes from a 64Gb USB stick. > > > > > > I am running R3.2 on my Macbook 11,1, and have built several > > > template VMs, for example Windows. > > > > > > What I want to do now is clone the entire USB stick to another USB > > > external SSD drive. In other words I want to be able to stop using > > > the USB stick and move to the SSD drive without building Qubes from > > > again scratch and then performing backup/restore all my VMs. > > > > > > Is this even possible? Am i dreaming? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > I reckon there's nothing to lose by trying, as long as you keep the > > original USB stick. You can try with dd or any program that makes a > > bitwise identical image from the USB stick and faithfully writes it > > onto the SDD drive. > > > > - -- > > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > > Community Manager, Qubes OS > > https://www.qubes-os.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYUVIDAAoJENtN07w5UDAwzAwP/0w1+2cu9qFizHAVfApng01g > > SPwqL9Gt+lNdYRoUUjSIsBHe2bpY1DDllpiZnTVc1EmK6daq9XjSMs1dVlceUNeV > > 01uJ2mN68vY6PqZZ0DrREdmK3EteFRo/761qwr+gvQ1A7BqT3gJZjIACauizQ1EC > > Jlk0Mr5BO34j9b3zj4bv43M+7fM2tL1kB0i1ISELCeiRF8IHcqd3IQMwF8GD7OfC > > iCAXiVj+pBbp7FojUhqrzHYmBj6YK35MmX6BAzwc6L/Zh3XcQsGuBy2SzPPmodgM > > kWJ6uRsKCY7k7hCM3nauDfrIeweOr0d4vhOUivx7CjdayCh/W1Z47A1hbId7E+i7 > > RqSqx/l3ZgEWkgnj5XOM/Pv3CrKIRnBr55fe5EDpgFeAasluGd4XFWHhx/Sx73mt > > iqVsk7KzBvvWL7AjThBWLqbwfk2FU0ajE0DJw3/XsGyJxscap8BXiGCPkTi4NaRd > > Z4Iy/VJ6RRVTSBbqZ87B28qZmZ/dYYJX7Rll//5OZcEI2XzSGopE882rdmaYG62v > > M6fQgpjsBh1QMC36Fe0nlFAN1FPoe2Aneg73wziA1+XKoZRo7iK/rQSb+vL3h9vq > > 2vZfBDbYkplWonJ6LhukGK4LozpuuaL2AK1Q4xhF8b/LZZII7/MWvkhHUDCMAY6t > > nDiTseM0toT5Gp48rPJw > > =GoBG > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Quick update: On a Kali Linux machine, I managed to format and partition the > destination disk as per the Qubes USB stick. I've used DD command to copy the > contents of the two partitions. I get a success message at the end. > > When I boot I get the option to boot from this new disk but nothing else > happens. I've noticed using fdisk and gparted on linux that while the DD > command is successful the second partition is actually empty. The first > partition is fine - looks exactly like the source disk. > > Any ideas appreciated.
Just in case this helps anyone else: I managed to do this successfully with Clonezilla. Used the advanced options where I unchecked "reinstall grub". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ca649c7b-235d-4931-9a88-8584ef3fb762%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
