Problem with hard disk imaging

[vampire_killer]

Hi everybody

I need to take an image from my laptop hard disk which has Linux SUSE installed , and I want to restore the image to another laptop (which is the same as mine).
how can I do this ???
in Windows environment , many programs can do this easily , but I don't know how to do this in Linux .

any help will be appreciated

[Irithori]

partimage or clonezilla can do what you want.

If you want an image, you need a big enough local attached or network storage.

[vampire_killer]

thanks for your reply

in fact , I did take an image from my hard disk using (Acronis True Image) program which is compatible with Linux partitions , but after restoring the image on another laptop and boot Linux SUSE , the system is stopped and this message is appeared :

doing fast boot
FATAL: Module ata_piix not found
FATAL: Error running install command for ata_piix
Creating device nodes with udev
[ 2.635788] fb : conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing gen
Trying manual resume from /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part1
resume device dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part1 not found (ignoring)
Trying manual resume from /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part1
resume device dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part1 not found (ignoring)
Waiting for device dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part2 to appear : ........................ Could not find dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part2 .
Want me to fall back to dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part2 ? (Y/N)
y
Waiting for device dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part2 to appear : ...............not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
sh : cannot set terminal process group (-1) : inappropriate ioctl for device
sh : no job control in this shell

so , I'm wondering if your programs will result in this message as well .
anyway , I will try them

[Irithori]

They wont in your case.
The hardware seems different after all.
At least your suse is looking for a specific disk at boot time.


I would actually install from scratch and then rsync the $HOME.
Should be much faster.

[vampire_killer]

thanks again for your reply
but how can I resync the $HOME ??
I'm newbie , you know , and need some help . please

[coopstah13]

main problem is that grub is configured to boot by disk uuid, you will need to modify grub entry before booting first time to either use the correct uuid or just use the disk identifier (and then fix it later)

also, i see lots of messages about resuming, did you take an image of a machine that was suspended/hibernated?