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Macrium V7 unable to clone / image Disk with xfs (Linux) partitions
Hi folks
seems latest version of Macrium free V7 won't clone or image physical (i.e not VM) Linux disks / partitions containing xfs formatted partitions. No probs with ext2/3/4 though.
Not sure if this has always been the case because I used to use ext4 file systems on Linux NAS so I can't say if this has always been a restriction.
I switched to xfs because its infinitely more efficient than ext4 and a load more resilient.
You can of course duplicate via dd but surely "cloning a disk" should give the choice of "standard clone" which just physically dumps data sector by sector - including empty ones to the target device so should be independent of the source disk geometry and file format even if it takes a lot longer or a faster "smart copy" .
Maybe in MF there is an option --I haven't been able to do it yet.
BTW no problem if your Linux system is a VM on a Windows Host even if the "internal VM" has xfs formatted disk(s) as the HOST OS will be using its own file system for accessing the "virtual disks"
Cheers
jimbo
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