DD tutorial - how to clone, backup and restore disks and partitions

* How to backup a disk and restore it with DD
* How to backup a partition to an .img file
* How to clone a disk to a bigger disk with DD
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[@MrFarvis]

Thank you for making a straightforward video without terrible techno music and unfocused screens like 80% of these chowderheads out there.

[@BioCreed12]

You really are uploading the best tutorials on youtube, and by far! Thank you very much for all of the great content and help!

[@LeetCodeSimplified]

I'm happy I found your tutorial! I almost gave up on creating a backup for my newly installed Ubuntu system after hours of trying to understand how it works. Your tutorial is excellent!

[@absprog]

Thanks a lot! Glad it helped!

[@Pymmusic]

Very usefull tutorial. I've used it to clone my hdd to sdd in my new computer. Thanks a lot!

[@absprog]

Thanks and welcome🤗

[@andreqbertuzzi]

Best tutorial about this subject

[@NoahBershatsky]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@absprog]

You're welcome!

[@released4pleasure]

Thank you your Linux content. It is of very good quality.

[@itz_premium]

@ 4:00 ....JIGGA-BYTES I love English when spoken in foreign accents, it makes some of the most unsuspecting fun sometimes. I'm laughing with you/at myself not at you good sir. Your video helped. been having issues with broken bootloader's after using clonezilla to upgrade storage devices (Parrot/'Kali') and DD for one reason or the other didn't give me that issue when I did it using a liveUSB as well. I was getting tired of opening my laptop over and over lol.

[@absprog]

You're welcome Tyler, appreciate the time you took to share your feedback

[@techtonicsystems]

Thanks. Great video!

[@absprog]

Glad to hear that!👍

[@leythecg]

beautifully explained! Thanks a lot for this!

[@absprog]

Thanks a lot, glad it was helpful :-)

[@QuantumQuasar_1]

Great vid, really help

[@absprog]

Thank you for your feedback!👍

[@markmcandrews1703]

Great video, subscribed on this alone. Thank you

[@absprog]

Thank you so much Mark! I'm glad you found the video helpful

[@joseolagu4091]

Thanks Mr. Matan ?? or Abstrac Programmer. I have seen many videos on dd . I am about to make real clones of my disks. However I had the problem of running out of space after using dd. My wild guess is that I have been using the same disk running the OS while trying to clone it to another. I even used an external hard drive bigger, and it did not work. I even erased the system on another one. So I will come back to let you know that using a live session with an external OS on a CD will do the job. *** Another issue is that I have been confused with all this process of mounting and unmounting. so I guess it will be good to have a video explaining this things. About this particular video, is that it does not have close captions, and I had to repeat several times in order to get the words clearly. Many thanks again. Cheers, JS.

[@absprog]

Thanks for comment and feedback :-) About the closed captions, it’s a good idea, I posted them for some videos and I’ll try to add them to this one as well. I didn’t really understand what problems you had with mounting/unmounting drives. Anyway, please let me know if using a live session to dd the disks helped!

[@joseolagu4091]

I got a clon finally

[@joseolagu4091]

Put the source hard disk as a slave and cloned it onto an external hard DRIVE USB. The main HD with its Ubuntu OS.

[@joseolagu4091]

My CD live didn't work. Using pentium III

[@joseolagu4091]

30 hours to clon 38Gb . don't know yet if. The clon works. Cheers

[@angelffg]

Excellent content, please continue with your videos👍🏻

[@absprog]

Thank you for your kind words Angel! I'm happy to create a clear and concise content. 🤝

[@marrockco]

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for 16:18

[@absprog]

I am glad you found this helpful👍

[@masonlapine8182]

Good video. Keep up the good work!

[@abdulrahmanaa3969]

your tutorial helps alot thanks so much !!

[@absprog]

Thank you for your kind words Abdul!

[@gabrielrodriguesmartimiano7272]

tks, your video is extremely useful and help me alot.

[@absprog]

You are welcome!

[@luja805]

Wouldn't adding a "blocksize" make the DD process faster? Like "bs=4M" or 128k?

[@kingokkings4965]

Heyy nice video man...😁😀

[@absprog]

Thanks! 😀

[@syedathahaseen3296]

Thanks for this......!!!!

[@absprog]

You're most welcome👍

[@ertertwert1]

thank you!

[@absprog]

You're most welcome!👍

[@FABESTAH]

Would be nice if the video was divided in different sections 🤔 Otherwise great video, keep it up! :)

[@absprog]

Thank you for your feedback, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the video overall! Your suggestion about dividing the video into different sections is a good one. I appreciate your support!

[@alant7797]

dd is short for dump disk or disk dump

[@binaryburnout3d]

How do we handle reboot and updates? For instance the physical machine that runs the hypervisor reboots automatically at a set time, then Checks for and updates on start up. How do I set it up so that when the machine readies for reboot, the VMs all shut down safely and then start up automatically when the machine boots again?

[@binaryburnout3d]

My limited understanding I was guessing to have the VMs auto shut down a minute before the machine is set to auto reboot. And then have the machine auto load the VMs. But this feels clumsy. Is there a way for the main machine to broadcast its reboot to the VMs and have the VMs shut down when they get the signal?

[@aswinks]

super

[@bennyacosta1560]

DD stands for Duplicate Disk

[@absprog]

😊

[@PaulMrPKcom]

thanks for this guide, will it work with btrfs ? will it be possible to clone the disk and boot from the new disk (old removed ?

[@dnguyen2708]

Your PC is PC windows 10 ? My PC is windows 11 . Could I install ubuntu or not?

[@Eli-mp8li]

Excellent video! Just have a question please. I'm running a web server on Ubuntu Server for personal use. I would like to create a system clone if the OS in case I need to restore in the future. Since it's a Server version of Ubuntu (terminal only), is it also best to run a live GUI Ubuntu ISO to create the backup using DD?

[@absprog]

Yup. That’s what I would use even if the OS itself was the server version.

[@Eli-mp8li]

@@absprog Thanks!

[@pro-serg]

Good but too long and no time codes to see what exactly you need... I need for example how to make backup.iso from USB thumb and I didn't found it yet, but I see that he doing similar (to .img file writing a partition on 12:38)... Also no used commands in video description... So I'm doing that writing backup to file on real system (Debian based) dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/home/g128/w_backup.img status=progress All my drives are still in place and piece ;) Like and Subscribe

[@absprog]

Thank you for your feedback and for sharing your command

[@Jean-Naimar]

I think dd alias disk dump is ok 😀

[@absprog]

😄

[@mdd1963]

03:56 Did you say 'jigga-bytes'?? :)

[@absprog]

My brain was doing a little jig instead of a gig there 😅

[@FulanodeTal-wh8ub]

thank you very much!!! your method work perfectly well. I've tried clonzilla live and gparted but i didnt achieved what i was looking for.