Re: [PLUG] Cloning a dying hard drive

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

Clonezilla on USB stick or CD is likely the easiest. It supports partitions
or whole disks and a bunch of methods including fsck before and 'dd' or other
copy methods to a disk or image file ( if you have NFS local storage )

Did you run smartmontools ( smartmon from the command line ) to determin
the errors logged on the disk ?     This will tell you if you have
an impending failure,  when you see 10,000 of seek errors.   You can
also have it scan the disk,  but if there are major errors,  it's best
to get data off quickly before doing anything else.

Lee


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@pobox.com>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 8:23:01 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] Cloning a dying hard drive

> The hard drive on my home server is starting to give me errors.  I
> actually got a kernel panic today while I was out because of it.  I
> fsck'ed it and it seems OK for now, but that's what I thought when I
> fsck'ed it a few days ago when I saw errors, too...
> 
> The machine is old and needs to be upgraded, but I'm going to need a
> few days to order the parts.  As a stopgap I just stopped by
> Microcenter and picked up a 1 TB HD in hopes of copying everything off
> the old 1 TB drive before things get any worse.
> 
> I've done this process at least once before, it was probably like 10
> years ago.  Does anyone have any thoughts on the instructions here?
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_cloning#Cloning_an_entire_hard_disk
> 
> That certainly seems the simplest method, assuming the errors remain
> manageable.  Other methods that might work would be
> 
> * rsync from the roots of the old partitions to the new ones
> * full restore from my backups
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Walt
> 
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