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LVM and cloning HDs

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Mar 15, 202628955 views
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Problem

Using Linux, I have several backup levels. One of them is a periodical sector by sector copy (using ) of my laptop harddisk to an external USB disk. Yes, I have other backups too, like remote rsync. This approach (the disk ) is OK when cloning a HDD with no LVM volumes, since I can plug the externa…

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Fix for: LVM and cloning HDs

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I agree with one of the previous answers -- running dd on the whole disk is not a great solution here. If the reason you're stuck on dd has to do with backing up another OS, then you can use dd only for those other OS partitions, and rsync for the l…

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