<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> davmor2 <davmor2@davmor2.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 8 May 2011, 14:50<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Wolves] Clonezilla<br></font><br><br>On Sun, 8 May 2011 14:15:05 +0100 (BST), Mo Awkati <<a ymailto="mailto:mawkati@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:mawkati@yahoo.co.uk">mawkati@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>wrote:<br>>>Hi folk,<br>> <br>>
<br>>>Thinking of using Clonezilla to make a copy of my HDD. I amconscious<br>that<br>>>I have been using the<br>>>hard drive for quitea few years now and don't want to be caught out by<br>it<br>>>failingon me at a critical time.<br>> <br>>>Any tips or things I need to watch out for? Obviously I will back upall<br>>>my files before I start the process.<br>> <br>>>Cheers<br>> <br>>>Mo<br>> <br>> Just to also say that I want to back up the image to an external HD. Can<br>I<br>> put it in a specific folder or<br>> will it require the whole drive?<br>> <br>> Mo<br>Mo by default it will save the image it produces to the root dir of the<br>drive you save too. Alway remember to call it something sensible like<br><machinename><backupdate> it gets confusing if you backup more than one<br>machine else.<br>-- <br>Seek That Thy Might
Know<br><br><br>>>>>>>>><br><br>I did install gddrescue from the Software Centre and could not get it up and running?? :( <br>I can get ddrescue from the CL but I wanted to see the GUI of gddrescue but could not find it.<br><br>With Clonzilla it is a live CD which I downloaded. You can specify the partitions you want to save<br>to including an external HD. But if it takes a long time then I might try David's suggestion. <br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>