Sunday, September 11, 2016

backup - How can I can clone or ghost my system drive to restore it to a bigger HD?




How can I can clone or ghost my Ubuntu System drive to restore it to a bigger HD?
Something like Norton Ghost does with NTFS or FAT on Windows.



Clonezilla is the closest free option to Ghost.



The underlying tools it uses, partimage and ntfsclone, understand the underlying filesystem. So unlike a simple low-level copy (dd) which copies all bytes, they only copy the used space on the filesystem and its metadata. This results in a much smaller disk image.


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