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John Nall(jwnall@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> Stef Mientki, Nate Duehr and w d myrick (combined messages) wrote:
> >>> Acronis True Image is very good it will make a copy of the disk you want to
> >>> make an image of even if you boot from that disk.
> >>> It is the best I have ever used.. Cost is about $30.00  US.
> >>>       
> >> Ditto that.  Acronis wipes the floor with Norton Ghost.
> >>
> >> They have various products for imaging, etc... all work well and RIGHT 
> >> the first time.
> >>     
> > and it's free for a month,
> > especially when creating a diskimage from one disk to a larger disk.
> > Perfect !
> >   
> 
> To recall the original problem, my harddisk is showing signs of wanting 
> to fail, and I wanted to replace it with a new, bigger disk.  The 
> question was what might be  the best way to clone the old one to the new 
> one.  Following the above advice, I used Acronis in  the "automatic" 
> cloning mode to copy the old disk to the new disk (the old disk is 40GB 
> and the new disk is 120GB).  The documentation said that the partition 
> sizes would proportionally increase but that otherwise everything would 
> be the same.  When I ran it, it found some errors on the old disk, which 
> I told it to ignore (what else could I do?) but claimed to have 
> successfully completed the cloning.
> 
> However, the new disk will not boot up.  It just sits there, displaying 
> the single word: "GRUB."   (This is a dual-boot disk, with both Windows 
> XP and Linux (FC4) on it, and of course Grub is the boot loader).  So 
> Acronis didn't do it for me.  :-(
> 
> This is not a gripe (although it may sound like it :-)  Just reporting 
> that Acronis didn't do the trick.  My guess would be that it has to do 
> with the errors reading the old disk. 

John

  I wrote this a long time ago but used it quite a bit during my early Linux tests.

  Hope it might be useful.

  Wayne
  
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#!/bin/sh
# Script to transfer filesystems from one Hard Drive to another

# Written by Wayne Topa (wtopa <huntbrittany@intergate.com>)
# GPL software - If you can use it - do.


# some subroutines

confirm() {
  echo -e "OK? \c"
  while true
  do
    read x
    case "$x" in
      y | yes | Y | Yes | YES )
        return 0;;
      n | no | N | No | NO )
        echo
        echo "Cancelled"
        return 1;;
      *) echo "Please enter yes or no" ;;
    esac
  done
}


# Program Start
# Check for existance of /mnt - exit w/msg if not
# Unmount /mnt (in case it is mounted)
# Ask for filesystem to transfer
# Ask for drive partition to transfer to
# Get another dir, if required
# Make sure data was entered correctly
# Make ext2 filesystem on DEST (if OK)
# mount drive partition to /mnt
# cd to filesystem to and tar(copy) to destination
# Compare original filesystem to transfered filesystem
# unmount /mnt

if [ ! -e /mnt ]; then
  echo ; echo
  echo " Transfer requires that you have a /mnt directory "
  echo " please create one and try again."
  exit 1
else
  echo " Unmounting /mnt"
  umount /mnt
fi

echo
echo -n "Which directory to transfer FROM: (ie /usr): "
read DIR

echo
echo -n "Partition to transfer TO: (ie /dev/hdb2) : "
read DEST

echo
echo "NOTE: this applies ONLY to multiple partition filesystems."
echo "If you are transfering to a specific dir on $DEST"
echo "( ie /etc on / partition) enter it here ( ie /etc )."
echo "If that dir doesn't exist, it will be created"
echo "Enter ret if none"
read DESTDIR
echo

echo "About to create an ext2 filesystem on $DEST"
if confirm ; then
  echo "Creating ext2 file system on $DEST"
  mke2fs -c $DEST
fi

echo
echo  "About to COPY $DIR to $DEST mounted on /mnt$DESTDIR"
if confirm ; then
    echo "Mounting $DEST on /mnt"
    mount $DEST /mnt
    if [ ! -e /mnt$DESTDIR ] ; then
      mkdir /mnt/$DESTDIR
    fi  
    ( cd $DIR ; tar clf - . ) | ( cd /mnt$DESTDIR ; tar xvpBf - )
    echo
    echo "About to diff-r $DIR & $DEST$DESTDIR"
    if confirm ; then
      echo " Wait - Comparing $DIR to $DEST$DESTDIR with diff -r "
      diff -r $DIR /mnt$DESTDIR | less
    fi
    echo ; echo "Here is $DIR"
    ls $DIR
    echo
    echo ; echo "Here is $DEST$DESTDIR"
    ls /mnt$DESTDIR
    echo
    echo unmounting /mnt
    umount /mnt
fi  
exit 0

  

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