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[entwisi]

what bit of using FTP is Linux mate? or even USB or email?

not clued up on Linux doesn't mean they wouldn't know about FTP

[Neil]

Originally Posted by entwisi

what bit of using FTP is Linux mate?

Running the client

[entwisi]

err, windows do clients and teh CLI one in DOS is prettymuch identical to CLI one in Linux....

it was more about if he knew how to put and get files from an FTP Server.

[mattylad]

I do not want to copy the data off, I want to clone the entire setup so that it can be copied to a new disk
so that a new disk will act as a server as the existing one does.

It is one of these and there is a forum here devoted to them.

But they are linux people & us windows users cant talk that ling

[entwisi]

I'll have a shufty tomorrow and come back to you, its far more than teh data you mentioned,

I may need to ask you some other Qs as I investigate what you need


Ian

[entwisi]

second attempt---- Dam you work internet proxy authentication

basically its a mini linux PC running a weird/unhelpful config which will make your life a little harder. its not a single 'image' that can be copied across as per your original thought

basically the disk is partitioned with 4 'main' partitions

one for your data ( listed as /dev/sdb2 in teh partition table on teh wiki )
3 for the OS

/dev/sdb7 is teh 'core OS'
/dev/sdb8 is the custom interface etc

teh above 2 stay static and never change

/dev/sdb9 is where all your config and teh day to day stuff 'runs'

so to achieve what you want to you will need to do teh following

get a blank disk
partition it as per the listed part table
format ( for safety I would use teh same ext3/xfs mix they did )
then you need to deal with each of teh partitions in their own right

if you have a PC that can take both source and target disks in addition to its own host ( LINUX/ OSX/*NIX needed ) OS then you can do it easily on teh fly using teh dd command specifying source and target partitions.

it sounds quite complex but isn't really, just a bit fiddly and time consuming and you need to be critically careful when doing the copy or you could splat the good disk with teh empty one and lose it all.

all in in a decent desktop PC you probably couild do it in a couple of hours


maybe not what you wanted to hear and with disks being relavitely cheap it may not be worth your time/effort it all depends on how much you value 2-3 hours of your life at.

[mattylad]

Thanks for that but yes your right, it does look complicated.

An external USB HDD case is only about £15 so I may as well go for that option instead... lol
Maybe one day someone else will have an image & I'll have a spare SATA drive & maybe we can get together with them .... lol