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Converting a RAID 1 drive to a regular one and booting off of it

I'm using mdadm to manage a RAID 1 array with three disks. Would it be possible to take a single drive from the array (i.e. /dev/sdc), turning it into a regular drive, and then booting another PC off of that one drive? I also noticed that mdadm…
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is there a possible to clone one server to other server?

I have a server running with Debian 10 . Some process are running in it. I want to have all the same software operating system/application to be installed in another server. Is there any way just to clone one server to another. The servers are…
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Clonezilla does not carry over user login configuration in Ubuntu 18.04

I have a machine with Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 installed. There is a single user and the user is set to login automatically without asking for password. I took device image with Clonezilla to restore the same image to multiple other devices. I tested 4…
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Restore a windows 7 image to different PC's

We run an office full of laptops that are all different ages/configurations with lots of different hardware. Basically we want to upgrade every laptop to windows 7, the classic ghost deployment wouldn't work as far as I am aware, as the varying…
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Migrating from EC2 to Proxmox VM

So I am currently running 3 servers on EC2 with total of 3 cores. And 4 GB for the main server and 1 gb each for the dns servers. The bill doesn't make any sense to me paying 70 ish $ a month. I decided to move to dedicated server. I installed…
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Use gparted to copy CentOS boot volume

I can't seem to copy all partitions from my boot device (SDA) to my new ssd (SDB). For some reason the copy function is greyed out for the SDA2 partition. I can only copy the SDA1 partition. I'm booting form a live gparted image. Can anyone advice.…
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Cloning LVM raw volume

I have to clone and manage some LVM RAW volumes that were created without making filesystem ext4. So I tried to mount this volume and linux didn't find any filesystem to mount. Inside this volumes I have some guest kvm machines. I used to clone…
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Create an Image of a disk having software raid partitions

I want to create a bootable backup image/clone of my centos7 server "A" having software raid partitions and use this backup to create new servers with same configurations. my partitions are sda --> sda1 ----> md120 / --> sda2 ----> md121 swap -->…
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Create single file on clonezilla?

Is it possible to create a single RAW image file using clonezilla and then mount it? I ask this because I have been recommended this instead of ddrescue, but ddrescue creates a raw .img that allows me to mount it. Is there any way?
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Moving a domain controller to another disk

Considering whether or not to move my domain controller to another disk (SSD) or not as in looking at Resource Manager the disk I/O appears to be the bottleneck for performance. In the research I'm in the midst of doing I came across this article…
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Clone Windows 2008 R2 to a small system drive

I am trying to upgrade a Dell PowerEdge T110 II server. It currently has 2x1TB drives. They are not configured for RAID. One is the system drive, the other is a data storage network drive. My end goal is to put 2x4TB with RAID1 setup for the data…
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clone nvme drive with 4096 sector size to ssd with 512 sector size

I have an nvme drive with a logical and physical sector size of 4096. The block size of this drive as reported by blockdev --getbsz command to be 4096 as well. The destination drive is an SSD with a logical and physical sector size of 512. The block…
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Puppet,git: Unable to clone

My puppet master has code as below vcsrepo {'/var/www/html': ensure => 'present', provider => 'git', source => "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki.git", revision => 'REL1_23', …
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Is it possible to clone raid member disks in an array with dd

I'm looking to expand the capacity of my qnap NAS by tripling the drive size from 2TBx8 to 6TBx8. However, I'm afraid the raid 5 will die before I can rebuild the array 8 times!! Can I remove and clone each disk independantly and add them back to…
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XenServer 7 - Duplicate the USB stick?

I have installed XenServer 7 on an usb stick like it's quite common with Esxi. I used my 64Gb stick thinking it will only use the required space and that I will be able to duplicate it later on a smaller key (with CloneZilla). Problem, it has spawn…
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