# dd if=/dev/sdc3 of=/dev/sdd3 bs=4096 conv=noerror # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=noerror You can clone a hard disk “sda” to “sdb”: The dd command converts and copies a file. You need to understand what it does, and you need to understand some things about the machines it does those things to, in order to use it safely. Warning: dd/ddrescue/dcfldd are power tools. dd and friends – The ol’ good *nix utilities ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux.Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment in data center, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla live is good for single machine backup and restore at home. I frequently use Clonezilla software to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Clonezilla – One Partition and disk cloning program to rule them allĬlonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image and Norton Ghost. In this post, I am going to list the Free and Open Source Cloning Software for Disk Imaging and Cloning that you can use for GNU/Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X desktop operating systems.ġ. Converting a physical server to virtual machine and more.

Acronis true image ext4