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FlexQ4

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Registered: 2017-02-19

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Clone SSDs with Clonezilla - within Q4OS?

Hello,
i'm planning to clone a GTP-partitioned, multi-boot (NTFS/Ext4-mixed) ssd to another, same model SSD with Clonezilla.
I knew Clonezilla as a live-system on USB, but it's available by Synaptic too!
So my idea is, to install it on a third disk(hd) with Q4Os and do the procedure from here.

Now, when i connect the source-ssd, a dialog will pop up for each partition on it, asking whether it should be mounted (which is normally a nice feature) but in this special case, i shoul not mount any of them, right?

Then, when i connect the target-ssd, nothing similar should happen, but i assume that Clonezilla will recognise it (and hopefully it will be possible to seperate it from the same-model-source :-))...

My greatest concern is, that after a successful cloning, the Q4OS-partition (on target) will inherit the UUID of the one of the source.
This isn't good, because i'd like to keep the old ssd and use it simultaniously with the new one for backups!

So, which way for altering the UUID (on the target) would you recommend, sgdisk (sgdisk --partition-guid=1:R /dev/sdg) or uuidgen or anything else?

Thank you for any suggestions!

Last edited by FlexQ4 (2025-01-07 00:52)

swarfendor437

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Re: Clone SSDs with Clonezilla - within Q4OS?

For cloning I only ever use Rescuezilla. I usually use DVD burn of the Rescuezilla and do that. It wasn't a mixed drive, but I had to copy Windows 11 off a failing hard drive to a Crucial M.2 SSD of the same size as the failing WD 1.0 Tb in my eldest's PC.

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crosscourt

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Re: Clone SSDs with Clonezilla - within Q4OS?

I use a program called Foxclone which is easy to use and works very well,  https://foxclone.org

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FlexQ4

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Registered: 2017-02-19

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Re: Clone SSDs with Clonezilla - within Q4OS?

For whatever reason. Clonezilla, Foxclone etc. are ment to run from usb/cd, not from disk - i didn't find out why.
But i learned a lot about partition tables, the mbr, and partition uuid's: they have to be changed, manipulated, and the corresponding grub entries generated very carefully (in a triple boot system) - if you want to use the souce and destination disk simultaniously eg. for backups. Very tricky!