What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?
- palordrolap ( @palordrolap@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
Ones I have used: GNOME Disks’ create and restore image features. Possibly Mint’s
mintstick
for writing a distro’s.iso
out to a USB stick. I am not too sure on that.I assume old-school
dd
still works as well, which might be a better option for scripted backups or minimal systems. - bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 9•8 months ago
Ddeez nuts
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English7•8 months ago
Clonezilla and Rescuezilla The Clonezilla method takes a bit time to get used to (but I like it). Rescuezilla comes with a GUI.
- SayCyberOnceMore ( @Cyber@feddit.uk ) English3•8 months ago
Clonezilla has been my goto backup / restore solution for years. I’ve used it on everything from RaspberryPi SD Cards to a Dell Poweredge server with PERC RAID controller (because some fool setup the wrong RAID parameters).
I didn’t know about Rescuezilla though… so thanks for that.
- kylian0087 ( @kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•8 months ago
To add to this. Take a look at the fog server project. It allows you to PXE boot and pull and push images in a automated way.
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 months ago
Take a look at the fog server project.
Thanks. https://fogproject.org
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English4•8 months ago
Definitely ddrescue. Unlike traditional dd, it can deal with failing drives, it’s operation is resumable, and has some other features that’s helpful. I would recommend using it even if your drive is fine.
What it produces is a byte for byte copy just like dd. - FQQD! ( @FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) English3•8 months ago
Gnome disk utility.
- null ( @null@slrpnk.net ) 3•8 months ago
I like it so much I have it on my KDE boxes too.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•8 months ago
It crashes for me when I try to write a image
- Gnugit ( @Gnugit@aussie.zone ) 3•8 months ago
After learning how to install medicat i discovered ventoy. With ventoy you can copy and paste how ever many bootable iso files you like into it and run them all from the same drive/partition from a selectable boot menu. It’s amazing, I won’t be using dd anymore for boot disks.
- linuxPIPEpower ( @linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•8 months ago
Careful where you point that thing. I unintentionally disrupted someone’s life by introducing them to ventoy. Now they have been distrohopping like crazy because of how easy it is.
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months ago
😀
- abclop99 ( @abclop99@beehaw.org ) 3•8 months ago
cp
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English2•8 months ago
pv. It’s just cat, with a progress meter.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•8 months ago
The native tools
- Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 2•8 months ago
DD is the best for 1-1 copying, but I like to use CloneZilla, because it can compress and encrypt the images.
- michel ( @michel@friend.ketterle.ch ) 1•8 months ago
@uhmbah
I use gnome-disks.
Then according to this german article:
gnulinux.ch/raw-images-verklei…
I reduce the images Partition to the smallest possible.
edit it’s content with kpartx and remove cache, tmp and trashbin
and reduce the disk and image size with pishrink. - MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 1•8 months ago
cp.
- moonpiedumplings ( @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ) 1•8 months ago
Ventoy. I love it so much, being able to have more than one bootable iso and storage on a usb.
Although, it is slower to boot the more folders you have, since it scans all folders, but this is configurable
I use nix-shell to get the ventoy cli for when I need to install it to a usb stick.