[Sussex] Cloning disks

[Brendan Whelan]

Thanks to James and David for their responses. I have downloaded 
clonezilla and will try it later.

I presume that another possibility would be to use a raid controller 
card, to mirror my master to my target disk?

Does any one know of a low-costs, 2 port, SAS raid controller?

Brendan

David Chapman wrote:
> Or you could download and run 
> http://gparted.free.fr/GParted-Clonezilla/gparted-clonezilla-2.0.iso
>
> Its a live CD
> Dave
>
> On Sun September 23 2007 12:36, James Smith wrote:
>   
>> Afternoon all,
>>
>> I managed to clone a disk with multiple partitions onto a new larger
>> disk the other day, and it was a lot easier than I expected:
>>
>> 1) Boot up an Ubuntu live CD
>> 2) Run gparted
>> 3) Copy/paste partitions between disks and resize as required.
>> 4) Have cup of tea (optional)
>>
>> Seeing as I wanted to boot with the new disk, I had to reinstall grub,
>> but that was as simple as booting up the Fedora CD in rescue mode and
>> re-running grub-install /dev/hda on the new disk.
>>
>> Only thing - gparted can't handle LVM yet, so I had to fiddle with
>> than for a while, but it was as easy as adding the new LVM PV to the
>> volume group, then removing the old one, then having *another* cup of
>> tea while it moved it all over.
>>
>> For a process that I thought was going to be a world of pain, it was
>> very easy indeed. No command-line fiddling at all - just the way I
>> like it :)
>>
>> cheers,
>> James
>>
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