I created this image with backtrack 4 release 2 using the AIR imager. the block size was set to 512. it is one big image with all the partitions on it.
Actually you dont need any tool for backup raw data..
If you clone as raw method in backtrack what block size is not very important
could anyone give me a general idea of how i may clone a 2 Gig disk running Solaris 7 on it to another disk of the same size?
currently, this system only has one disk in it though. i do have the ability to hook up another disk via SCSI.
i have been told i need to boot to "miniroot" to run... (9 Replies)
Hai ......... my name Rio,
I want to clone my harddisk at Sun Balade 2000 server with Solaris 8 OS, my question is :
a. what kind method for making backup or clonning disk ?
b. what method more easier , quick but still reliable ?
c. how to proceed it ?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Disk cloning
I had an external SCSI master disk that I used to clone to an identical external SCSI disk because the other SCSI disk would become corrupted. My original Master became corrupted so I used one of the other to good disk to copy back to the master. Unfortunately the new master needs... (1 Reply)
Hi.
We tried cloning a SCO Unix hard disk using Norton Ghost.
However, the new cloned hard disk encounter booting problem.
What possibly go wrong? (1 Reply)
Continuing saga of working on making a retail store more robust by creating a backup clone of the main server, a 1995 era :eek: PC running SCO OpenServer 5.0.0b and a discontinued Point of Sales (POS) software system.
I have a PC of the same make and model. The CPU runs faster and it has a... (5 Replies)
hello folks,
I have a 300GB ROOTVG volume groups with one filesystem /backup having 200GB allocated space
Now, I cannot alt disk clone or mirrorvg this hdisk with another smaller disk. The disk size has to be 300GB; I tried alt disk clone and mirrorvg , it doesn't work. you cannot copy LVs as... (9 Replies)
Guys can anyone tell how can we do faster disk cloning
Below i found in google
1. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=noerror,sync
So adding "conv=noerror,sync " makes it faster looks against not adding it
2. Enable write cache activated (hdparm -W1 /dev/sda) then run dd ..
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to clone the hard disk image of Solaris OS on one disk to another disk. After some googling I found that there is a command "dd" to achieve this.
However there is a condition to use the dd command, that the disk geometry of both the disks (source and target disks) should... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajujayanthy
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dgetlp
DGETLP(1) General Commands Manual DGETLP(1)NAME
dgetlp - simulate ``dget'' behaviour for files hosted at librarian.launchpad.net
SYNOPSIS
dgetlp [-d|(-v|-q)] <Launchpad DSC URL>
DESCRIPTION
dgetlp simulates dget behaviour by downloading and extracting the <Launchpad DSC URL> from the Launchpad Librarian.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for dgetlp:
-h, --help
show this help message and exit.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging.
-v, --verbose
Enable verbose output.
-q, --quiet
Never print any output.
<Launchpad DSC URL>
This is the source package that you would like to be downloaded from the Launchpad Librarian.
EXAMPLE
dgetlp http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10348157/coreutils_5.97-5.4ubuntu1.dsc
AUTHOR
dgetlp was written by Terence Simpson <tsimpson@ubuntu.com> and modified by Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>. The python rewrite
was written by Terence Simpson <tsimpson@ubuntu.com> based off the original. This man page was written by Ryan Kavanagh
<ryanakca@kubuntu.org>. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
ubuntu-dev-tools 27 August 2008 DGETLP(1)