How can I create an exact image of my harddisk on an external disk?

May 28th, 2008 by daniel

Attention! Check if these are the correct mountpoints!

  1. sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda

To see the copy progress do the following:
Get to know the process-id of the running dd command

  1. ps -ax

Open a new terminal window and execute the following:

  1. sudo kill -USR1 {dd-process-id}

Now you can see the copy progress in the terminal where the dd command is running.

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