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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/5/19 8:21 PM, Bill Catlan wrote:<br>
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size="2">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.</font></div>
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<p>Clonezilla on a USB stick might work as well. It has options for
doing remote work on local networks (there are choices for samba
and ssh among others)...and AWS S3 is a specific option.</p>
<p>A quick Web search also shows many pages on running Clonezilla
archives in virtual machines.<br>
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<p>I used it to migrate my system's Windows 10 install from the
factory original 128 GB SSD to a 512 GB drive. It also has gdisk
available to move the GPT backup directory to the physical end of
the disk, allowing you to use the unused space on a larger drive
when you're cloning a smaller drive (if not, you'd just have a
drive the same size as the original image with no other way to
reclaim the missing space). <br>
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