Replace hdd and the server "desktop" of amahi server

[kaneco]

Hello all,

Just one question regarding this topic, it is possible to take a snap shot of the hdd of amahi server, and install this snap shot on a different hdd without the same capacity?

To do this, I am talking to take the snap shot of hdd with hirens boot cd with ghost and copy a snap shot to a network drive and after this I change the desktop and the hdd and a load the image into the new desktop and the hdd with a different capacity.

It is this possible to do??

Best regards

[moredruid]

yes (you can also use clonezilla), but your target hdd should have the same or a larger capacity than the source drive.

[kaneco]

Hello one question regarding this topic,

If I clone the hdd with clonezilla to other one with more capacity, when I start-up the system with new hdd the system automatic the adjust the size of my hdd to the new size on partition

best regards

[bigfoot65]

As far as I know you will have to tell clonezilla to do that. Otherwise when you boot the OS, it will see the unallocated space as just that. There is an option during restore that you can tell it to use the full drive.

[sag47]

It's also a good idea to zero the free space on your Amahi server before using Clone Zilla. This isn't just for Amahi but a practice for images in general. The image size will be smaller too if the drive wasn't in a zero state.

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dd if=/dev/zero of=~/zerofile rm ~/zerofile