03-04-2023, 10:19 AM | #1 |
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Clonezilla Is Amazing.
I just cloned my 250GB SSD to a 500 GB SSD, so I have more space. I was a bit nervous, even though I've used clonezilla many times, and never had any disasters. sometimes it didn't work, but that was almost certainly user error.
along with the new drive and a sata cable, I ordered a convertor, so my two SSDs can be secured. It took me an hour to figure out how to install the adapter in my computer. To clone the disk? Seven minutes. Once you figure out how to use it, this (free) software is truly remarkable. nothing else quite like it. It works with Linux, Windows and OSX, probably BSD as well. It's very safe and extremely fast. If you haven't tried it, you should!
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I've used Clonezilla a few times now. Once to move my wife's Xubuntu from HDD to SDD. Once to move Manjaro from my DAW's SSD to a new NVMe, and once to move Xubuntu from my MythTV server's HDD to a new SSD.
It worked perfectly each time, and took less than 20 minutes to clone the drives. I'm also a fan of DejaDup now after having put my DAW back together after a grub issue. A virgin install of Manjaro, followed by loading my DejaDup backup had my DAW back with all the Windows plugins still functioning in less than 30 minutes. |
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Clonezilla was a bit too obscure in its onscreen instructions for me. Instead, I use a live usb drive to boot Gnome. When booted, I start Gnome Disk and write a disk image of my main drive.
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Glennbo, my SSD had only 120GB, so the 7 minute clone time is perhaps not too surprising. but I/m sure your drives are quite a bit heftier (I only do midi), so the 20 minute time is impressive.
Krahosk, I know what you mean about Clonezilla's text-based instructions. I was afraid to use it until I did several dry runs. Part of that is their rather scary warnings, and asking you twice if you really want to proceed. but if it helps you avoid disasters (which it probably does in my case), so be it. I've heard of people using Gnome disks to do it, maybe I'll check that out. Although I'm using the cinnamon desktop, I installed that program in order to easily mount drives.
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I'd rather use Clonezilla, though. it's faster to run from a usb key than my method. Any tutorial recommendation for use in Linux?
I found this. I think I will look at it and try but I remember the WARNING! indications making me scared :-) https://support.signagelive.com/hc/e...a-Device-Image Last edited by krahosk; 03-05-2023 at 03:11 PM. |
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The question is, what does it do with the rest of the unused space e.g. when copying a 250 GB disk to a 500 GB one? Does it leave unformatted, or does it take it all as free space?
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My "disks" utility shows it at 250GB used and 250GB free, so there is 250GB free space. It lists it as unallocated.
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03-08-2023, 02:21 PM | #8 |
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For Clonezilla with GUI you can try Rescuezilla.
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03-08-2023, 02:39 PM | #9 |
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I like Timeshift for Linux backup, works as flawlessly as Time Machine and saves space for sequential backups.
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03-10-2023, 04:39 PM | #10 |
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Yeah, but Timeshift, like DejàDup are restoring utilities and might not be useful in disk failure.
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https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....hlight=dejadup So I installed a fresh copy of Manjaro, then restored a DejaDup copy of my home folder that I had made one day earlier. All my Windows plugins running in WINE instantly worked again, as did all my native Linux plugins. Had the entire drive failed, I would have been able to install a new drive, do the same procedure and be back up and running in short order. |
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For instance, I didn't have to set qjackctl back up. I only needed to install it from the repository, and it instantly had the correct audio device, sample rate, bit depth, number of periods, Etc., because it was loading those settings from config files that were restored in my home folder. |
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Rescuezilla
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"Yes, Rescuezilla is the Clonezilla GUI (graphical user interface) that you might have been looking for." https://rescuezilla.com/ |
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In addition to DejaDup backups of home folders, I also keep a Clonezilla copy of a MythTV server that runs 24/7 in the studio closet. That machine has a lot of setup outside the home folder, and I've once needed to restore the image. I use the non-graphical version of Clonezilla, and it's not that intimidating. You just need to be absolutely sure of the device or partition names when using it. |
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Do we have to configure Pipewire again? And the Reapack plugins and Yabrige VSTs? I guess that if you didn't mention it, it's OK. |
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Other things I use that aren't contained to the home folder, like Kodi, Stellarium, FS_UAE (Amiga emulation), or KdenLive all needed to be installed from the repository, but were all setup upon installation, because their settings live in the home folder. For instance, right after installing Kodi, I checked to see if it still had the correct ip address and port to use for streaming media from a MythTV server in the house and it did, because those settings are stored in the home folder. Quote:
The bottom line is having a full image backup is a good thing. I have Clonezilla images of my DAW, my MythTV server, and my wife's machine, but I also have made DejaDup copies of their home folders. I chose to go the DejaDup route with the last restore I did on my DAW so I'd end up with a brand new clean copy of Manjaro. Last edited by Glennbo; 03-12-2023 at 10:25 AM. |
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I used an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 2000 in the 80s. The Amiga 2000 had a GoldenGate bridgeboard with its own memory and an Intel 386 so I could run Windows full speed as a task in an Amiga window.
I sold the Amiga 2000, but still have the 500. Both had hard drive backups on floppies, which I converted to virtual disk images, and then restored into a couple of virtual hard drives that I can now boot in the Amiga emulator FS_UAE. It's like having both my old Amigas available to boot up and run in a window on Linux now. |
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Amiga 1000 here. One of my biggest regrets is somehow somewhere getting rid of all my old floppies with myriad crazy coding experiments and journals and who knows what the hell... Somehow I still had all the C64 disks, though, so I transferred all that data over and it's absolutely wild to run programs I wrote when I was seven in an emulator. :-)
I may have been the hardest-core fanboy of Amiga that ever lived when I was a young man. I was borderline insufferable amongst my geek peers, and I still get wistful when the subject comes up. |
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I mostly wrote midi stuff, like patch librarians and a random patch generator for synths, but I also created a set list generator for the band I was playing in, where you could pick songs by their number, and create BIG font printable set lists for everybody in the band. Quote:
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Yeah thanks I mean don't let me oversell it :-) just talking ridiculous little kid BASIC programs and such, but certainly it gave me some kind of foundation.
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I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but it sounds like it was fun! My level of sophistication at that time vis a vis "computers" was playing Pong...
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When I see screenshots from that era I still say to myself "surely that's not what it ACTUALLY looked like at the time... surely it wasn't THAT low resolution... surely it wasn't THAT clunky and slow..." Amazing how it has changed.
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You would design in the low res screen like the screenshot I posted of Sculpt 4D, but then you would render to the DCTV hardware and end up with high quality video that could be recorded to video tape. |
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