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sigelang · 2009-11-14 07:21:45

I am running Debian Lenny on my DNS-323 and I am a newbie on Linux. Right now I am only using a single drive (1Tb) so there is a place for a second drive (160 Gb) to backup and image the original Hard drive just in case something happen to it. Is there a tutorial on how to image or clone the existing hard drive so I can easily swap out just in case the original hard drive fails? With Debian installed, that little NAS is very helpful to my work. (dns, ping, telnet, nslookup, dig and "sftp").

I can initiate a VPN/tunnel from work to that little device and use it to troubleshoot my network.

Thanks,
Sige

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sige@LINK:~$
sige@LINK:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 917G 864M 870G 1% /
tmpfs 31M 0 3 1M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 564K 9.5M 6% /dev
tmpfs 31M 0 31M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 11M 205M 5% /boot
sige@LINK8890:~$

bjby · 2009-11-14 09:40:16

http://dns323.kood.org/howto:backup

sigelang · 2009-11-14 22:28:48

Thanks for the link bjby. I looked at the link and it appears to me that the information mostly discussed in protecting your valuable data and maybe I missed the part on cloning the hard drive. Since I am not a seasoned linux athministrator I will probably look into a commercial application like Acronis or ghost. Install the cloning utility on CD or USB and install both hard drive in a regular PC.

I had the impression on Linux system that I can do the IMAGING, copy the information bit-by-bit, sector by sector on a smaller hard drive via one command line .

This little box is turning to be very useful to me. I just wish it had more physical memory.

BTW., I have both seagate HD's, Is there any cloning utility that will run form a dos or linux from the manufacturer that I can get from the web for free?

Last edited by sigelang (2009-11-14 22:32:17)

hell0 · 2009-11-18 16:25:04

you should definitely read the man for dd like here: http://ss64.com/bash/dd.html

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How can you clone the Linux OS Hard drive?

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