I did something like that twice recently, but using a dd command to clone the drive. The first time it worked; the second time, I had to reinstall the boot loader on the cloned drive, after which it too worked.


Rob

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On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, WSRC Radio wrote:

Greetings,
My current system is self contained (no server) with only one hard drive.  I
would like to extract that drive and connect it to a pc along with a second,
new hard drive and clone it with something like MiniTool. 

The new drive would then be put into a second box with identical (or nearly
identical) hardware that would then be used as a backup in case of
catastrophic failure of the original box. They would not be used on the
network at the same time.

Will that work? I'm a Linux novice and needed quite a bit of help setting up
box one in the first place, and was hoping to avoid that when setting up the
backup.

Thanks

Jeff Clark

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