[Lilug] dd restore process

Bill Catlan wcatlan at gmail.com
Sun May 5 20:17:36 PDT 2019


Thanks Joe. I will check it out.
Bill

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:03 PM Joe Goldberg <joehgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could try using Packer, https://www.packer.io/.  It can export a
> machine to several different formats at it is not too difficult to work
> with.
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> Joe
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> *From: *Lilug <lilug-bounces at lists.lilug.org> on behalf of Bill Catlan <
> wcatlan at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *"wcatlan at gmail.com" <wcatlan at gmail.com>, LILUG Mailing List <
> lilug at lists.lilug.org>
> *Date: *Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 8:21 PM
> *To: *"LILUG at lilug.org" <LILUG at lilug.org>
> *Subject: *[Lilug] dd restore process
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I am thinking of using dd to archive off some physical hard drives - ext,
> ext2, ext3 and fat32, and ntfs and restore them as time allows as virtual
> machines, probably on AWS. I have found various things online about how to
> do this, but have not tried them just yet.
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> However, I also have a nagging recollection of using dd as being fraught
> with potential stumbling blocks for performing the restore.  I seem to
> recall that 1) you needed to take note of the source disk geometry in order
> to recover the image and 2) you needed to take note of certain boot sector
> specifics - perhaps start location? - to restore boot-able volumes.
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> Do either of those things resonate with anyone regarding restoring a dd
> image either today or at any time in the past to physical hard drives?  On
> the one hand I think to myself, wow, that would be really bad design, but
> on the other, I seem to recall it being that way. If you see any obvious
> points of confusion on my part, then I would welcome thoughts on that as
> well.
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> Thanks!
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> Bill
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