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On Monday 07 June 2010 19:54:04 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net> [10-06-07 20:28]: |
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> > > Does anyone has experiences with gparted? |
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> > I have no experience with Parted Magic, but I have used a lot the |
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> > Gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). No idea on |
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> > how the two compare. |
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> > As for gparted (which is a lot more than a gui for parted), I have used |
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> > it on ext4 a couple of times and it managed to complete the copy without |
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> > destroying anything, so I'd say it works. On the other hand, I copied |
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> > *lots* of ext3 and ntfs partitions, and it never failed me. |
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> > BTW, by default gparted does *not* do sector-by-sector partition copies. |
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> > In my opinion this is a much better approach if you do not need a |
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> > bit-exact copy of the original (e.g. if you're doing forensics or |
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> > debugging filesystems), but in the end it's up to you. |
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> > andrea |
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> Hi Andreas, |
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> do I understand right here: |
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> Instead of using dcfldd or simply dd to copy one disk to |
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> another for backup reasons it is much better/faster to use gparted |
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> to simply copy all partitions from sda to sdb using sda1=>sdb1, |
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> sda2=>sdb2,... and so forth? |
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> Is there something like a "batch job" or scripting interface |
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> for gparted so that I can give gparted the complete copy job |
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> once, go to sleep and next moring the copy is done? |
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> Is gparted able to shut down the system after finishing its |
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> work or to end itsself so a little script can detect the |
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> job is done and halt the system then? |
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Am I being old-fashioned, or is there anything wrong with rsync (if not |
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tar/star) for this purpose? Make sure to add the relevant option for sparse |
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files and only bits and bytes with data will be copied over. Therefore it |
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will be faster than dd at any rate. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |