How does that help?
How does that help?
Jon
Yeah I know the function, I just meant how would it help in the situation given especially as they didn't have linux.
But good to know for future use.
So you just put in dd and its as easy as that? Handy
Jon
Putting devil's advocate hat on, OP doesn't mention they don't have linux, we can only imply they at least have Windows given mention of Acronis, and I guess a very roundabout way might involve running a linux VM to mount the source and target drives and use dd within the VM.. but that kind of negates the benefit of using dd in the first place which is very low level access to the drive. You can run Linux natively within Windows now so that's another option.
It can be that easy.. but it's also quite easy to trash your own data if you (badly) mess up the command. Drowning duffers and all that. The respondent is in danger of linux snobbery (just like I am of Arthur Ransome with my previous sentence) with a throwaway comment implying that life aboard the linux train is simple once you master it.So you just put in dd and its as easy as that? Handy
I tend to use Acronis true image boot disk out of habit. The 2020 version though is so slow to back up compared to older versions I will stick with 2019. So much slower and only a bit smaller end result. I care about speed than it being a bit smaller.
Macrium reflect is my other go to as it is British (I think). I used to like it for doing a remote back up of some ones Windows machine and making a vm from it. Then upgrading their machine and having them be able to then remote into their old environment to move stuff over and make songs the same. I think I could even make a back up while they were using it but I maybe remembering wrong.
Macrim Reflect or if I'm cloning to a virtual machine Disk2VHD from MS. I've used a VHDX file running on HyperV to clone with Macrim Reflect to a laptop when it borked. I also use Disk2VHD to create an image for casting from my PXE server.
It just saves so much time, especially if you have a lot of software or software that takes ages to install (looking at you Adobe) to clone a drive when swapping them out. It also less hassle trying to tweak all the settings back to normal. This machine I'm on is still the original install image from about 8 years ago upgraded to Win 10, but I create a VHDX of the drive once a month so can re-image the image when I upgrade the drive or if it dies.
I've repeatedly used Acronis over the years, but on family machines where they've decided not to opt for a paid product, I've gone with EASEUS TODO or Aomei Backupper, tried Macrium a few years ago, was left unimpressed sadly as it couldn't even load, I have no idea why that was the case to this day! I'll look into it again.
I think it could be chipset and uefi. I had to add a driver for an Intel raid driver before to the boot image. It was HP but dell also have a habit of setting the BIOS to raid instead of AHCI. I think it would affect any WIN PE based boot disks. That's why I prefer the Linux boot disk of true image less hassle.
dd all the way
DD is a bit big, I prefer a C at best..
As for cloning drives, I use Veeam..
AGTDenton (17-12-2020)
Macrium reflect works great
I also have been transistioning to Liunx more over the last few months and used to use TRK "back in the day". For clones I have an ISO of HDClone. However I recently discovered this dd command and for a quick simple option when you want to save time then this is the way to go.
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