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by bhesner

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Is there a product like Norton Ghost that will
create a complete Linux image and allow me to
restore it to another drive? I want to image
our Linux server, change the hard drive, and
put the image back on the new drive.

thanks

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by jaqui

there are several tools to create images of partitions for exactly that purpose, but there is not one that will image the entire disk with all partitions.

it is actually easier to just copy the configuration and data for restoring that.

archive the /etc /home and /var ,burn those archives to disk, replace drive and reinstall then extract the archives overwriting everything.
[ basically, though there can be a few issues, like with partition labels being different because of changes in security with new distros. ]

by the scummy one

there are a couple of scripts to use DD in this manner, however they only create the image file to a network share.
Well, this was a while ago that I looked into it. However, what I did was just DD the entire disk, by using DD without the partition to clone
Example:
dd if=sda of=sdb

by Former member

Paragon Partition manager will do what you want. PM is primarily a Windows app, however there is also a Linux and DOS based emergency recovery disk that you can use to copy one HD to another.

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