[GRLUG] ddrescue

[Justin Denick]

That one is from the days of bricking windows boxes for fun. It's been a few years, but I recall rsync -avz would even copy partition info if it was called like 

rsync -avz /dev/sda /dev/sdb

Where sda contained sda(1,2) and sdb did have any partitions. Probably not the purest solution, for block-by-block copying, but since it's rsync you can stop and start, call it again later and all sorts of near stuff.

Don't screw up the boot up :-) If this partition is the boot partition, the bootmgr may want you to set the boot flag. fdisk can do that, rsync won't. 

Let us know if it works or fails.

-j


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> On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:02 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Justin Denick wrote:
>> 
>> rsync -av /dev/old /dev/new
>> 
>> That's from memory, but I wanted to add -z too, so best to rtm
>> 
>> -j
>> 
> I would not expect rsync to handle file system issues, .. but it's worth a
> try.
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
>    Lee
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