Acronis True Image
I purchased a copy of acronis true image home 2010. What I want to do is make a 1:1 clone of my harddrive on my asterisk phone system will acronis get the job done and well I need to do anything special to make sure the backup harddrive works. Also does acronis change anything in the linux partion when you make a clone copy of it in a windows 7 environment thank you.
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Thank you for all the info the reason why I was asking if it would change anything on the source drive is because acronis picked up that it was a linux partition and it said something to the effect of if you click continue your harddrive may not boot in to linux unless you run the restart linux command or something to that effect. I just want to make sure its not going to do anything to the source drive.
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here is the exact error message I get from acronis any suggestions on what this is telling me. I believe this is for the destination partition what do you guys think. Thank you
Warning
You are about to change parameters of a linux partition.
If this is not a bootable partition, click ok to continue
If this is a bootable partition, you will need to perform some actions to make it bootable after the partitioning operations. Please be sure you have your linux boot diskette before clicking the ok button.
To make this partition bootable again after the partition operations are complete:
-insert the linux boot diskette into the floppy drive;
-Boot your computer from the linux boot diskette and log in as root;
-If you use ASPLoader as your Linux loader, type /sbin/aspldr
-If you LILO as your Linux loader, type /sbin/lilo
-If you use a different Linux loader, please follow the instructions for your loader.
-Reboot your computer and you will be able to boot your linux again.
Warning
You are about to change parameters of a linux partition.
If this is not a bootable partition, click ok to continue
If this is a bootable partition, you will need to perform some actions to make it bootable after the partitioning operations. Please be sure you have your linux boot diskette before clicking the ok button.
To make this partition bootable again after the partition operations are complete:
-insert the linux boot diskette into the floppy drive;
-Boot your computer from the linux boot diskette and log in as root;
-If you use ASPLoader as your Linux loader, type /sbin/aspldr
-If you LILO as your Linux loader, type /sbin/lilo
-If you use a different Linux loader, please follow the instructions for your loader.
-Reboot your computer and you will be able to boot your linux again.
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Cna somebody tell me what the above warning message means coming from acronis thank you/
The error message you get indicates that Acronis will update MBR of Linux disk and kick off GRUP or LILO from it. In other words your Linux will not boot. You will need to reinitialize GRUB or LILO (loader of Linux) to make it boot again.
According to the warning message it does change something on copy target drive (not sure about copy source drive).
Are you taking sector per sector copy without resize?
According to the warning message it does change something on copy target drive (not sure about copy source drive).
Are you taking sector per sector copy without resize?
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yes sector per sector copy without resize. What I'm hoping to do is make a complete 1:1 backup of my harddrive that is in my asterisk server. My office phone system I want to make sure if anything goes wrong with orginal harddrive I have a backup that I can put back in reinitalize the GRUB and phone system works again. I never used acronis to make a backup 1:1 copy of a linux drive before I've used it several times to make a 1:1 copy of windows drives with no problem. I want to make sure if I use it to make a copy of my asterisk system its not going to change anything on the source drive. Thats the million dollar question lol is it going to change anything on my source drive and if it does change anything on my source drive what is it going to change. thank you
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Thank you, for expanding on that, great information. This procedure can also be done using a USB thumb drive, additionally you can clone drives without expanding the partition sizes, Acronis now provides a three different options for the destination (Unchanged, Proportional and Manual).
Jake