Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Clonezilla: disk cloning, but it's easier than dd" video.

  1. I used Clonezilla to backup a system before doing major repartitioning and setting up dual boot. I'm an irritable old guy so I didn't read the text at each step "Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm doing. Just do it." I got tripped up by the "destination directory" bit and ended up with my files in the wrong place. If there's one thing to take away from this it's take your time and read the text until you've done it enough times to fully grok the process. Also when cloning to the VM, I'm assuming that you passed the USB image store drive through to the VM at some point?
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  2. If you want to do everything by hand with 'dd' you certainly can but a tool like this can save time and heartache if you fail to do one of the manual steps to create/restore an image. There's also 'ddrescue' which does 'dd' type stuff but again handles stuff automatically that you'd otherwise have to do manually and can save a lot of time when trying to save data from a dying drive. Choose the right tool for the job.
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