-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is good info for backing up the MBR (which includes the partition table).
However, if you are going to image a partition use either ddrescue (does the same thing but has a status screen, can resume, and works around read errors) or partimage (has a status screen and it understands (most) filesystems so it can leave the empty space sparse). On 07/17/2015 02:48 PM, Larry Irwin (gmail) wrote: > Hi TG, You can keep an up-to-date copy of the > files/folders/pipes/etc. in the 100GB space using rsync, but not a > true clone of the partition. To get a true clone of the boot > partition, you'd need to boot from a rescue CD, mount the other > machine's 100GB space and dd the boot partition device to a file on > the 100GB space. You'd also probably want to get the Master Boot > Record by grabbing the first 2K of the raw boot device into a > separate file... i.e. something like: dd bs=512 if=/dev/sda1 > of=/mnt/u/backup/jessie_sda1 dd bs=512 count=4 if=/dev/sda > of=/mnt/u/backup/jessie_mbr_sda The device names might be different > - the mount folder may be different - etc... But the idea works. - > With a new, blank drive, you could recreate the partitions using > fdisk, reverse the dd commands, boot and then work on getting the > second partition back up and running. > > -- Larry Irwin > > On 07/17/2015 01:40 PM, Thierry Granier wrote: >> Hello i have a machine A with 2 disks 1 et 2 running Debian >> Jessie on 1 is the system and the boot and the swap on 2 >> different partitions like /home /opt ETC..... >> >> i have a machine B with 1 disk running kali-linux and *100G >> free* >> >> Can i clone the disk 1 of machine A on the 100G free on machine B >> with rsync? >> >> If it is possible, how to do that? Many thanks TG >> >> > > > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., - -*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., - -*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlWpV+kACgkQVKC1jlbQAQc47gCeNqRbq5PGVmvC61Qby2saHo9z Q3wAn2ZSoBM080XyQ8j7DXJn7TBeEL6A =EhNc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html