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What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?

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Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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dd ?

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mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk
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Rather use dd_rescue as it’ll retry if it encounters any reading issue.

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LostXOR@fedia.io
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No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol’ dd does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).

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bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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Ddeez nuts

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palordrolap@kbin.social
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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.

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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Clonezilla and Rescuezilla The Clonezilla method takes a bit time to get used to (but I like it). Rescuezilla comes with a GUI.

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SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk
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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.

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kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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Take a look at the fog server project.

Thanks. https://fogproject.org

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FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
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Gnome disk utility.

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null@slrpnk.net
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I like it so much I have it on my KDE boxes too.

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silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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Yeah I just started using Linux half a year ago and tried a few distros and DEs, but GNOME “disks” is just the easiest way to set up auto mounting and is available on any package manager I came across so far.

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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It crashes for me when I try to write a image

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