Is there a way to make a bootable clone of MUSE Hard Drive in case of future failure?

[evanzulu]

Has anyone successfully cloned a mirror image hard drive of their Receptor 1 drive as a bootable back up, and if so, how and with what program?

I would assume I'd need to take it to a Linux expert that has a special mirroring back up program? It's just too much time and energy on this hard drive to not have a proper back up.

Thanks in advance!

[johnrule]

+1

Had I known how vulnerable this system is, I would have done that immediately when I bought it. I may still create an image of my current drive, but I would prefer a default state. This really should be provided without asking...

JR

[evanzulu]

+1

Had I known how vulnerable this system is, I would have done that immediately when I bought it. I may still create an image of my current drive, but I would prefer a default state. This really should be provided without asking...

JR

Did your original drive fail?

[glokraw]

there are 2 slightly different linux ddrescue commands that might help, if you format an identical drive in the identical format that Muse use. Their purpose is a byte for byte
replication of data on different media, for disaster recovery. The difference in the 2 versions, is one of them continues even if the data is corrupt. Ask them for the approved solution. I doubt they will be happy if you brick the system, and then come crying for help.

cheers

[johnrule]

+1

Had I known how vulnerable this system is, I would have done that immediately when I bought it. I may still create an image of my current drive, but I would prefer a default state. This really should be provided without asking...

JR

Did your original drive fail?

And what if it did? That is the point...

JR

[jeamsler]

You can remove the drive from the Receptor and attach to your pc and backup using Acronis. It's a pain but it works. I've restored drives and cloned to larger drives without a problem.

[johnrule]

You can remove the drive from the Receptor and attach to your pc and backup using Acronis. It's a pain but it works. I've restored drives and cloned to larger drives without a problem.

It is the "pain" part that Muse could help us avoid by providing a "default" image to start over with...

I am going to give Clonezilla Client a try.

JR

[johnrule]

You can remove the drive from the Receptor and attach to your pc and backup using Acronis. It's a pain but it works. I've restored drives and cloned to larger drives without a problem.

It is the "pain" part that Muse could help us avoid by providing a "default" image to start over with...

I am going to give Clonezilla Client a try.

JR

Well, Clonezilla made an image of my 160 gig hard drive quite easily. The hardest part of this whole thing was getting the drive out of the Receptor! While I appreciate the workmanship of the Receptor, do we really need all of the hard drive screws?! I also had to remove the audio board to get to the last two HD screws...then I was able to remove the HD and install it in my desktop.

I simply chose my image source as the Receptor drive, and my destination as a folder on a Linux drive on my system. I chose "image" rather than "clone" because I want to restore to a larger partition on restore. It wasn't clear how Clonezilla would handle NTFS formatted drives as destinations, so I chose what I was comfortable with.

It took one hour to image and compress 100 gig (the actual used space) to a 53 gig image folder. I chose to create an MD5 checksum at the time of creation...it may come in handy.

We'll see if it actually restores to a larger drive (like a 250 gig) when I finish this later.

JR

[Balda]

Hi,
I using g4l (http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/). You only select source and target drive and wait few minutes. It is easy...