![]() ![]() The 'sync' to the small hard drive is readable at file level on anything I can boot from a live CD. The rsync backup to the large drive is file readable on work PCs that use Windows should disaster strike. That gets rsync'd to a FAT32 stick each day using the 'time window' command so it does not write everything each time.īasically the clonzilla whole drive backup is just to save time/bandwidth with re-installing and setting up. I have a free dropbox account for really crucial 'working' files. This drive is NTFS and does not preserve permissions and excludes dotfiles. Once a week there is rsync without -delete to a large external hard drive as 2nd backup. This drive is ex4 and preserves ownership and permissions, and includes dotfiles. Subsequently I use rsync with -delete set to sync the home drive only to an external drive of similar capacity to the computer drive for daily changes. Then I use rsync to copy all my 'stuff' back off a large external hard drive to the 'clean' installation. I use clonezilla to image the whole hard drive including OS once I have a 'clean' setup with an empty home and all my software installed. Pretty much any utility automating these steps is acquired by the various virtualization vendors, or heads directly to the enterprise market (kind of like how inexpensive screencast creation software always disappears!). (5) After transfer, expand volume to fit target disk (4) Shrink volume (if backup is filesystem-aware, and disk is one large volume). (3) Zero unused space - SysInternals SDelete. (2) Defrag the page file - SysInternals PageDefrag ![]() (1) Defrag - built-in / maybe SysInternals contig These steps are also useful for virtual machines, but they tend to take quite a while. I used dd booting from a USB stick to transfer a Windows install from hard drive to SSD this weekend - there are a number of steps that can be done beforehand to tighten up the size of the final output. ![]()
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