Clone or copy system disk

kevy · 5. März 2015

Hello good morning.

First of all say I'm Spanish and my English is very poor, so I apologize.

I just started with OMV and I like a lot, but I have a doubt.

As I can clone the system disk, in case someday breaks to copy and put it to work all?

Greetings and thanks.

kevy · 7. März 2015

Hello again

I cloned the system disk (160gb) in one of 1TB, with Acronis True Image and Clonezilla.

The cloning in 2 cases has been successful, but when trying to start the NAS from the cloned disk in 2 cases gives me error.

That's what I'm doing wrong?

Greetings

KM0201 · 8. März 2015

Zitat von kevy

Hello again

I cloned the system disk (160gb) in one of 1TB, with Acronis True Image and Clonezilla.

The cloning in 2 cases has been successful, but when trying to start the NAS from the cloned disk in 2 cases gives me error.

That's what I'm doing wrong?

Greetings

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Well... what's the error?

raulfg3 · 8. März 2015

clone a system / boot Disk on a 1TB disk is a waste of space, reserve 1TB disk as Data disk, and do a new fresh install on a small & cheap boot disk.

regarless to your first post.

in case that you lose your actual OMV boot disk, you only need to reinstall from scratch and reconfigure services by hand, and reinstall all your pluggings , you can save config.xml for guidance, but can't be used to recover your install

KM0201 · 9. März 2015

Zitat von raulfg3

clone a system / boot Disk on a 1TB disk is a waste of space, reserve 1TB disk as Data disk, and do a new fresh install on a small & cheap boot disk.

regarless to your first post.

in case that you lose your actual OMV boot disk, you only need to reinstall from scratch and reconfigure services by hand, and reinstall all your pluggings , you can save config.xml for guidance, but can't be used to recover your install

I personally don't even bother backing up my boot drive... Reinstalling is simple and really doesn't take that long, unless you have a lot of customization involved (I don't)

WastlJ · 9. März 2015

Zitat von KM0201

Reinstalling is simple and really doesn't take that long

Correct. But a faster way is always preferred I had lots of customisations installed about a year ago... Did a reinstallation and tried to configure everything with just plugins. Besides a few things, everything works as good as before.

kevy · 10. März 2015

Hello good morning

I know that installing from scratch is fast, but consider that I have 30 hard drives connected, many plugins and then is not as fast.

The error I get is:

0 Logical Volume
Attempting Boot From NIC
Non-system disc or disk error, replace and strike any key when ready

So it does not recognize the drive I think.

Greetings.0

cypour · 3. November 2015

I'm facing a similar situation... This is my case:

Had omv installed on an old 80gb sata drive.
Wanted to transfer the system drive on a 40gb ssd.
First I booted a gparted cd and shrunk the omv system partition to 20g.
Then used clonezilla to clone the partition to the ssd.
Third step, boot insto gparted again, on the ssd created swap partition and marked the cloned system partition as bootable.
Then I tried booting but no luck.
Used the old 80gb disc to boot, can see the cloned partition all right, can mount it.
chrooted and re-installed grub.
But I still had no luck booting off the cloned disk.

Can someone shed some light here?

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