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    <p>You bet Satsangat. I used a Gparted disk to find the definition
      of the drives and then the command line in the included terminal
      emulator after checking, rechecking and then checking again that I
      had the correct drive designations. I think the cloning took less
      that an hour and no data loss or other glitch. Just a new, larger
      SSD with all, everything. If someone wants to walk a through it
      that would be a good thin. I think Jason helped me as well as Eric
      but that was so long ago I don't know, besides you, who can walk a
      through it. It scared me aft first also but it turns out to be a
      simple process and I will do it again should my 1 TB SSD ever need
      to have more capacity. I can't imagine that but then I also
      thought that my Apple G3 desktop with 4GB drive was enormous! It
      wasn't</p>
    <p>Brian<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/4/19 9:39 AM, Satsangat Khalsa
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">This is great info, Brian.<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:08 PM
          Brian O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com"
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            <p>Hi All,</p>
            <p>I've mentioned before but dd makes this a simple and
              fool-proof method of cloning the old drive to the new one.
              It takes an enclosure for the new drive w/ usb connection
              and that's it. After checking the drive names to get the
              correct info into the command line it is simply running
              something along the following (in case your drives show up
              differently but this is what I did upon fellow NMGLUGgers.
              Special thanks to Eric almost 10 years ago!!):</p>
            <pre class="gmail-m_4193771927357076030moz-quote-pre">dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror


...will copy everything from hard drive sda to sdb  (i.e. all
partitions, swap and all data), a true clone.  No need to create
partitions or format them on the target hard drive as the dd command
will create them because it is copy of every single block of sda.

Now if you where copying a single partition to a new drive yes you
would have to create the target partition on the new hard drive.

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror

In the command above this would clone partition 1 on drive sda to
partition 1 on drive sdb.  In this case you would not need to format
the new target partition either as it is again copying every block of
partition 1 of the source sda1 to the target sdb1.

Hope this helps.

- Eric</pre>
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            <div class="gmail-m_4193771927357076030moz-cite-prefix">On
              6/3/19 6:47 PM, a wrote:<br>
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              <p>Hi Jason<br>
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              <p>Thanks for the good thought, i do not know who that
                person, to meet early, could  be?. If you will be around
                Thursday lunch get things rolling, under 300Gb. or wait
                till later in the week, see how things "shake out",
                another meeting is okay, the ssd has arrived I have a
                usb adapter, <br>
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              <p> Best a</p>
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                5/30/19 9:02 PM, jason schaefer wrote:<br>
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                <p>Hi a</p>
                <p>I highly recommend coming to a meeting to get this
                  done in person. For something like this its good to
                  get confirmation that someone is willing and able to
                  help you at the meeting. It would also be good to meet
                  this person early to allow time for such a migration.
                  I might be able to be this person next week but my
                  days are so crazy its hard to say what time I would be
                  able to get to the meeting.</p>
                <p>Jason</p>
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                  5/30/19 5:42 PM, a wrote:<br>
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                  <pre>Hi 

I have ordered a 500G ssd to install my laptop, with my limited knowledge and support devices.(i no need a live disc) My tentative plan follow the Https below transfer to external HDD  then reverse 
the process to the ssd?


IN 1.)

( SUDO LINE BELOW FROM; <a class="gmail-m_4193771927357076030moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/</a>) USING THERE SITE EXAMPLE FOLLOWING:

 $ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /mnt
 

Q.) IS MY DESTINATION CORRECTLY CONFIGURED?. SUBSTITUTING /MNT LAST PART PREVIOUS LINE FOR:  /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD TO GET
THE COMPOSITE LINE BELOW:

$ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD



BEST.a
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