Re: [lubuntu-users] Bootable clone app for Lubuntu

[Fritz Hudnut]

@Guang Chao:

Appreciate the thought . . . but I think this is more like "Time Machine"
or the windows idea of moving the system to a specific place in the
timeline, rather than the clone concept . . . .

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Ian Bruntlett 
wrote:

> Hi Fritz,
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question but I'll try to answer it.
>
> In particular http://clonezilla.org/ might be of interest to you. I
> haven't tested it though,
>
> There are some Linux "live" disks available that might be of interest to
> you and I have links to them on this web page:-
> https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software
>
> For backing up personal files, I use a shell script that invokes tar. I
> then copy the resulting tar files to an external flash drive using the
> standard file manager.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Ian
>
>
> @Ian:

And thank you as well, and indeed the name "clonezilla" does imply that it
makes a clone of the system as I saw on Synaptic.  The little blurb for
what it does seemed to mention that it "clones to 40 machines" . . .
something like that, and I only want to clone just one . . . so I was
looking to see if anyone had actual experience with it . . . .

As mentioned before, in the linux world I haven't needed a clone, as the
systems were constantly being upgraded, there was always a fresh install
coming along; but, now in PPC that has gone "static" . . . the envelope has
been pushed as long as it could apparently be . . . so being able to clone
the "what is" . . . into a new HD could be a time saver . . . .

Thanks,

F
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Re: [lubuntu-users] Bootable clone app for Lubuntu

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Fritz,

I'm not sure I understand your question but I'll try to answer it.

In particular http://clonezilla.org/ might be of interest to you. I haven't
tested it though,

There are some Linux "live" disks available that might be of interest to
you and I have links to them on this web page:-
https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software

For backing up personal files, I use a shell script that invokes tar. I
then copy the resulting tar files to an external flash drive using the
standard file manager.

HTH,


Ian

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Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 1

[Andre Campos Rodovalho]

Clonezilla does the Job. I use to do this manually using DD, but the
Clonezilla solution does a good job with a quite straightforward wizard.
Get the LiveCD, works for so many people and is not so difficult to use.

If you can, try to close to the new HD and test that out before destroying
data on old HD.

On 6 July 2017 at 13:08, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote:

> if you want a bootable clone have you tried just dd the drive to an .iso
> file?
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Fritz Hudnut 
> wrote:
>
>> HH:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply and suggestion . . . w/o knowing about backintime,
>> the problem with apple's time machine is that it doesn't make a bootable
>> "clone" . . . it just backs up files from an install . . . but to move the
>> files back there has to be an installed system . . . .  The bootable clone
>> moves everything needed to boot the system into a fresh partition . . .
>> ready to boot . . . .
>>
>> F
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <
>> herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I use backintime. It is very close to apple's time machine.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Fritz Hudnut 
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Lu Users:
>>> >
>>> > I'm still trying to keep my PPC computers going, although each of them
>>> is having one kind of problem or another . . . .  The G4 iBook is where I
>>> have Lu 16.04 installed and generally the iBook is "OK" except it looks
>>> like the HD is starting to go "pre-failure" on us.
>>> >
>>> > The iBook is dual-boot with OSX 10.4 on one side of a 40 GB HD . . . I
>>> have the OSX side cloned to an ext HD via Carbon Copy Cloner . . . and I've
>>> noticed in other ubuntu-esque installs I have there has been a "Back-up"
>>> package installed . . . I believe in U-MATE 16.04, but right now my
>>> PowerMac Sawtooth is not booting so I can't try it out--but looking through
>>> the Lu list I didn't see anything named "Back up."
>>> >
>>> > I ran a Synaptic search from the Lu and it showed a bunch of packages,
>>> including Clonezilla, and rsync . . . I don't have many files that would
>>> need to be "saved" . . . what I would like would be a "clone" of the
>>> present install, so that I wouldn't have to remember the boot params and
>>> run a fresh install . . . but, would like to make a clone of the Lubuntu
>>> side of the HD on an ext HD, then when I would need to install a new HD I
>>> could boot from the clone and move the install back into a partition of the
>>> new HD . . . .  Not sure if that would work as easily as it does from CCC,
>>> and/or whether the GRUB data would carry over, but, it might be a time
>>> saver if it can be done via some package
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
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