On 2012-11-26 21:28, Andrew Greig wrote:
Hi all,
I have 2 x identical Lenovo IdeaPads each 160Gb storage. I have downloaded and burned the CD iso of Clonezilla. I set up the source with a fixed IP of 192.168.0.44 and the target with 192.168.0.55 have CloneZilla running on each machine and ran the command line as root ocs-onthefly -s 192.168.0.44 -t sda from the receiving machine.
The clone failed with the line "Failed to create the partition table on the target device: /dev/sda ! Program terminated !!" I have Googled for help and tried blitzing the MBR.
I could try blitzing the whole target drive, ie delete the partions already present. Would that be helpful?
I've not used CloneZilla before, but if you've only got to do this once, I'd probably just do it with dd and netcat: srcHost$ dd if=/dev/sda | nc -l -p 1234 dstHost$ nc srcHost 1234 | dd of=/dev/sda And optionally write a while loop on each host to send a USR1 to dd to get transfer statistics (data rate and quantity) at regular intervals: srcHost$ while pkill -USR1 ^dd; do sleep 10; done dstHost$ while pkill -USR1 ^dd; do sleep 10; done You could also put a 'pv' command in the mix to get an ETA and such. When I tried this (not using block devices; just regular files) it didn't stop when it hit the end of the file; it just sat there. This shouldn't be a problem though; just confirm that both dds have read/written the same number of bytes, and you should be fine to kill it. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia