How to copy (not back up) a disk?
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I'm trying to use Redo to create a copy of my system disk. The descriptive material led me to believe that is possible, but either it isn't really, or I haven't figured out how to do it. (I haven't found anything like a user manual or help system.)
On the first try I booted with two disks attached to the system: my regular system disk (source) and another drive with exactly the same size (target). After I selected the source and target, Redo asked me which partition of the target disk I wanted to copy the source disk to. Wrong.
I tried deleting all of the existing partitions on the target disk. I thought that would be, at least, a pretty clear hint of what I wanted. It didn't work; when I tried to copy again, Redo displayed a menu of possible targets that was empty.
The obvious solution to my problem is to accept what Redo is telling me and treat the "target" as a backup, rather than a copy. Although that's obvious, it's not attractive. How do I verify the result? If it's a copy, I can simply yank the source disk and reboot. If I can only make a backup, I'll have to restore it to another disk and boot that. Then making and verifying a copy will require two time consuming backup/restore operations instead of one, and incidentally, a third disk!
There is no Disk to Disk clone in Redo.
If you are looking for a free Linux based Disk to Disk clone application i would suggest CloneZilla : http://clonezilla.org/
I am sure there are other options out there.