I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server to a large (1.5TB) disk, as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. Both disks are Western Digital, and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep the original disk, and I'm not sure from the documentation if True Image allows this. Any opinions on the better of the two? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 9/27/2010 4:27 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server > to a large (1.5TB) disk, > as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. > > Both disks are Western Digital, > and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. > I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. > > My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep > the original disk, and I'm not sure > from the documentation if True Image allows this. > > Any opinions on the better of the two?Don't know much about Acronis but clonezilla should do the job as long as it is able to read the used blocks on the source and you don't mind the copy having the same partition sizes initially (you can resize or add the unused space as a new mounted partition afterward). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On 09/27/10 2:27 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server > to a large (1.5TB) disk, > as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. > > Both disks are Western Digital, > and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. > I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. > > My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep > the original disk, and I'm not sure > from the documentation if True Image allows this. > > Any opinions on the better of the two?is this ext3fs ? use dump ... | restore ...
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27:00PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:> I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server > to a large (1.5TB) disk, > as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. > > Both disks are Western Digital, > and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. > I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. > > My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep > the original disk, and I'm not sure > from the documentation if True Image allows this. > > Any opinions on the better of the two? >I would be inclined to suggest regular UNIX dump/restore. The size change is covered in normal UNIX fashion and all links, ownership, permissions and flags are preserved properly. ////jerry> -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos