Clone that Drive!!!!

[wavesound]

Hi All
After my Ubuntu Studio had a fit and startx refused to start I had to re- install the OS and MB6 and all my plugins
Approx 25 of them I always use.

I did the usual trawl round the Net on a mobile phone re startx,  some of the info was 10 years old!!

I did the full re-install over 2 days and all fine. I upgraded to MB V7.

I decided there had to be a better way and looked at cloning my System drive ( My music data is on 3 internal drives)

It seemed to this musician like arcane magic with lots of warnings re losing all you data

mmmm Then on Amazon I saw  this little box called: RSHTECH USB 3.0 Hard Drives Docking Station.

I thought No way can it be that easy.

So I bought one,  and hand on heart loaded my sys drive and a new SSD then hit clone!!
30 mins later new drive was in pc and all fired up perfect 

No Hunting for licences and re installing plugins and Mixbus!!
I now have 2 system drives and can swap it out in 5 mins!!

Happy bunnies or what! 

[madmaxmiller]

So I bought one,  and hand on heart loaded my sys drive and a new SSD then hit clone!!
30 mins later new drive was in pc and all fired up perfect 

Happy bunnies or what! 

Haha I'm happy you're happy. Putting the new drive into the computer and 

Code:

dd if=/dev/sd[x] of=/dev/sd[y]

where /dev/sd[x] is the device name of the existing system drive and /dev/sd[y] is the device name of the new clone would have done that, too

MMM

[Lexridge]

Next, you should set up rsync to keep the drives in sync with each other. Pretty easy and very fast. You can use grsync to make it even easier with a GUI. I run it nightly with a script that spins up the backup drive, checks to make sure it's ready, syncs the drives, then dismounts and spins it back down. I like keeping it hidden just in case ransomware were to somehow creep in, no matter how unlikely.