Help with copying a complete harddrive

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Hello,
I didn’t know where to post this, so here goes.
A friend of mine wants to copy his TIVO hhd to another. He says that it is a “linux” drive. What command to use to copy the old to a new drive?

Thanks for any help.
Ron

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dd
see: dd (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
or man dd

or consider clonezilla

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Try something like clonezilla. However if the mount from TIVO uses disk IDs some post clone tweaking may need to be done.

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Thanks guy’s, In sure this will help get him a going.

Ron

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Thanks guy’s, In sure this will help get him a going.

Ron

Hello danorske. I have used the dd command with success, but I created a target partition identical to the source first. The dd command can copy all contents within, but you need the source and target partitions to be identical.

Thank You,

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On 2011-09-19 00:16, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

> Hello danorske. I have used the dd command with success, but I created
> a target partition identical to the source first. The dd command can
> copy all contents within, but you need the source and target partitions
> to be identical.

You can also clone the entire harddisk in one go, but it will copy the
partition table as is, even if incorrect for the new disk.

However, they can be resized later.

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On 9/17/2011 8:46 PM, caf4926 wrote:
>
> dd
> see: ‘dd (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia’
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix))
> or man dd
>
> or consider clonezilla
>
>
personally, use clonezilla. dd needs to be handled with kid gloves.

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You can also use Redo backup-livecd, just find out at the Dutch part of the openSuse forum.
Here is the link so you can see it for yourself.

Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery

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I love Clonezilla, but I’m 99.9% certain it is just going to fall back to using dd anyway. Clonezilla is file system aware, when can be - otherwise, and in the case of LVM I believe, it just falls back to using dd anyway.

Also, I am pretty certain the TIVO partitions are not, in fact ext2/3/4, but are a proprietary file system - which again would call for dd, or better yet dd_rescue.

Tivo’s Media File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pete