Hi, I'm trying to do a full disk backup of my harddrive and wanted to use the disk to disk clone option. So the disks are both 160GB but when I boot clonezilla it says the source is actually 165GB and the target only 159GB. Can I still do disk to disk?
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No, this is still the limitation of Clonezilla. Maybe you can manually use the fsarchiver to do that. fsarchiver is also included in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-27.
Steven.
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ok, so what do I do? I buy a new harddrive like for example a 250GB external harddrive then save an image of my 165GB to the external drive. But if my 165 actually fails I couldn't restore the image to the 159 but had to buy the exact model of the 165 again to restore the image to?
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As I mentioned, you can use fsarchiver to make that. Or if you insist to use Clonezilla live, you can deal that with partitions, not the whole disk. By partitions, I mean you can try to use smaller partition, say 158 GB, so that you can restore or clone that 158 GB partition to your new 159 GB disk.
Steven.
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Hi, I'm trying to do a full disk backup of my harddrive and wanted to use the disk to disk clone option. So the disks are both 160GB but when I boot clonezilla it says the source is actually 165GB and the target only 159GB. Can I still do disk to disk?
No, this is still the limitation of Clonezilla. Maybe you can manually use the fsarchiver to do that. fsarchiver is also included in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-27.
Steven.
But if there's only 130GB of data on the 165 can I atleast save the 165 disk as an image to the 159, perhaps with compression
For Clonezilla (actually partclone, partimage or ntfsclone) no, for fsarchiver, yes.
Steven.
ok, so what do I do? I buy a new harddrive like for example a 250GB external harddrive then save an image of my 165GB to the external drive. But if my 165 actually fails I couldn't restore the image to the 159 but had to buy the exact model of the 165 again to restore the image to?
As I mentioned, you can use fsarchiver to make that. Or if you insist to use Clonezilla live, you can deal that with partitions, not the whole disk. By partitions, I mean you can try to use smaller partition, say 158 GB, so that you can restore or clone that 158 GB partition to your new 159 GB disk.
Steven.