Hi folks, I recently started running a N40L server with Openmediavault. All is groovy but I learned that I shouldn't be running a USB pen drive as the boot/OS disc since it'll eventually die due to the ongoing disc writes the OS requires. So, I'd like to make another replica USB drive to back mine up, for use until I source a cheap HDD for OS purposes. When I put the OS USB drive into my Win7 machine it's not recognised - I guess the filesystem is not compatible. So, since I'm also running a Linux distro on my server I guess there's a clever command I can run to create a clone??? Any thoughts and advice welcome! Cleggy.
straight copy: Code: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2 substitute sda1 and sda2 for source and destination respectively save to file: Code: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=~/filename replace 'filename' with file name of choice restore from file: Code: dd if=~/filename of=~/dev/sda1 replace 'filename' with file name of choice all of these have to be done as root.
Just remember to do this from an other machine so your not DDing a live mount system. Also if you want to copy all the info off the drive including MBR and other partitions use the drive letter not the number Code: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb You can also directly compress is to a .tar.gz file with magic linux pipe goodnes Code: dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > ~/sda1.dd.gz
