What's best way to clone a Windows drive to a remote server
Hi, I've already sent this on that other green forum, but people seem doesn't care to about my thread, so Ill repost this:
I'm looking for a way to backup a Windows disk, to a remote server or online storage, or something like that. I have just around ~750GB on a failing 1TB Seagate HDD that had developed bad sectors and a new, identical unit. The data I have is mostly downloads, isos, backups of backups, etc. I have backed up one partition and one more in progress using Rsync, but sometimes it's tedious and fails on permission (whoops my fault), but it works. Now I'm looking for other tools to backup the main Windows partition without using Rsync (fails on permission). The remote server is running on Debian 10. I did a search but nothing works for me
I can think of 3 ways on both machines:
- Clonezilla (but it's out of the question since I don't have any USB, and my source just refuse to boot from a SD card)
2.rsync (simple but tedious)
dd & ddrescue
Veeam
Any more suggestion that I cant think of, preferred Windows but Linux is fine
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Symantec ghost32
Dont think that I could use ghost32 to clone that
Windows host to linux remote.... I'm sure I understand the "clone" part.
But I do this everyday - file backup/sync - with rclone on windows and webdav on the linux part.
FreeFileSync? https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=schedule-batch-jobs
If you have somewhere to store a backup, http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm
It creates an image of your disk, while Windows is still running. Very nice software.
It is a 2-step project. First, you create a backup file and save it somewhere. Then you restore from that backup file onto the new server.
A couple of restore options are available on the webpage. http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/restboot.htm
https://clients.mrvm.net
Probably I need a Wireguard + SMB setup and that should be good
Partimage used to work well. (Haven't used it for some years.)