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Image between external hard drives Linux

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:49 am
by joueur2012
Hello,

I didn't find how to make an image of an external hard drive to an an other external hard drive under Linux.
Is it possible ?

Re: Image between external hard drives Linux

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 1:20 pm
by Alt
Of course this is possible, straightforward and without any tricks.
If you're talking about saving an image of an external disk to another external disk, just select the disk to image and the other external disk as the target, and start the process as usual. It may be much longer though because of slower data transfer rate, especially for the USB2 interface.
The same procedure is for disk cloning.
I did that many times, and never experienced any problems, set aside broken disks.

Re: Image between external hard drives Linux

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 12:08 pm
by joueur2012
Thanks !

In my first try, I didn't find first the right folder to put the image in.
It's just in the "media" folder where we can find the hard disk.