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  1. The adventures continue!

    I run a number of computers at home, almost entirely GNU/Linux-based. As the hardware continues to age, data integrity had become more and more of a concern. I am particularly worried about sudden disk failures, and with a combination of ddrescue and timeshift I have been setting up whole-partition/whole-disk and incremental backups on critical systems.

    I have also […]

    https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2025/07/06/adventures-in-microsd-and-raspberry-pi-disk-cloning/

  2. A little bit more manual work this morning, to delete an empty recovery partition, and extend the boot partition to use the extra space, and it's done.

    I went to bed with clonezilla still running. Sometime between 4 and 6 am ET this morning it completed the clone.

    What used to take 25-30 minutes from a cold start, took under 2 minutes to fully started and ready to use.

    😲😊

    #DiskCloning #HardwareUpgrades
    #OldAndCranky

  3. And I have also spent the entire day trying to upgrade my #Windows system boot disk from 80 gb HDD to 256 GB SDD. Clone software is so much fun. /s

    Probably at least a couple of hours yet, if it even works. #clonezilla is apparently working, unlike the other three packages I tried earlier.

    #Programmers don't, or shouldn't, do #hardware.

    #DiskCloning #HardwareUpgrades
    #OldAndCranky

  4. Upgrading family member’s laptop to a SSD. Disk cloning over USB 2.0 is painful. #ssd #diskcloning #familyITguy #macriumreflect

  5. Upgrading family member’s laptop to a SSD. Disk cloning over USB 2.0 is painful.