Re: Can a weak CMOS battery prevent detection of a drive
"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]>
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:07:55 -0400, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > When Macrium clones, it also only transfers the occupied > clusters, which is like a "free TRIM" in a sense. "dd" > transfers from SSD to SSD would transfer all blocks, > which burns up a lot of the free pool on the destination, > and can benefit from issuing a TRIM per partition > in the Optimize panel later. I manually create and format the new partitions, and then use rsync to transfer the files. That's also how I do my primary backup of data. In run level 1, with any remaining user processes killed I run ... time nice -n 19 ionice -n 7 rsync -auvxSHXAP --specials --sparse --delete --exclude="lost+found" /home/dave/ /aback/home/dave/ Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change [email protected] to [email protected] for email replies.