Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning
On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper <lug@???> wrote: > My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and
> then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M
>
> This has worked for years but now fails to copy all files on Fedora 13.
> Some directories like /sys have permissions ???? . I also tried
> clonezilla using partclone which took 24 hours and then crashed. I think
> this is the first ext4 backup I've done. The only other change is my
> removable caddies which are now cheaper ones.
>
> Any ideas?
> Maybe the hard disk is failing.
What does "smartctl -a /dev/sda" output in the reallocated sectors row?
