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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:02:20 PDT7
From:	SYNass i-lists <i-lists@synass.net >
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Warning to HDD cloning / migration

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Hi Jordan
Peter is correct in recommending a backup BEFORE cloning !!!
I just lost 2 HDD's with cloning from one to another !!

Stacked at 11.8% and many more hours the cloning process showed no further
activities and I aborted ...
... assuming that I can repeat again from the source to another target:
Unfortunately both HDD's (the source too) had gotten: Boot Sector Read Erro=
r !

Now, all the data gone and lost ...
... only a very expensive hard recovery may bring it back
but chances seem to be very very little ;-(

This info to you to be forewarned and surely make your backup !!!

Good luck & cheers, svob=EF

Quoting J R FOX :

> --- Peter Skye wrote:
>
>> I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but
>> resizing a partition
>> can be a high blood pressure experience if you get
>> any kind of failure
>> while it's running. Aren't you better off by
>> copying/cloning the
>> partition, deleting the old partition and recreating
>> it in the desired
>> size, and then XCOPYing the files from the
>> copy/clone to the new
>> partition?
>
> No, not really Peter. I don't think you're following
> what I planned to do. Nothing will happen to the
> source drive -- it will be kept just the way it is
> until I'm certain that it is no longer needed, perhaps
> much longer than that. All operations will be
> performed on the freshly cloned larger drive. This is
> akin to working on a copy of a file, rather than on
> the original, just on a much larger scale. If the
> copy gets mucked up, you still have the original, and
> can try again *on another copy*, probably in a
> different way. (Hopefully any failure is clear in the
> early going, so not too much time or effort will have
> been invested. In this case, that means booting each
> Target boot partition, and running a representative
> selection of app.s. Also, DFSEE has gotten quite good
> about reporting things not right with the drive
> setup.) And I do use a UPS.
>
>
> Jordan
>
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