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A clone is a replication, or an exact copy, of something.

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How to git clone both origin and upstream?

Context: I am working with git. I typically have forks of other repositories where I contribute now and then. I switch my work machines often - and also delete local clones of the remote repositories. ...
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How to Clone a hard drive that has RAID-1 to another hard drive and make it bootable?

I am trying to clone a hard drive that is in RAID-1 and be able to boot that targeted hard drive. I am using Win 7 and the hard drives are identical. Acronis solution would not boot. An image copy ...
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How does hot cloning a running Windows drive actually work?

I'm aware of the software options - what I mean is, how do they actually achieve this, when a running OS may be writing files such as logs, even if I try to not actively use it? I read one comment ...
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What is the likely source of unexpected clones of newly opened GitHub repo? [closed]

This is a soft-question in that the answer will necessarily either include a probabilistic break-down of likely sources, or it will be speculative. However, I am curious to know what automated (bots), ...
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Mapping ddrescue and data from a particular head on a hdd

I'd like to clone data from a particular head of a HDD. Can I do a ddrescue and then divide the rescue image by the number of heads to get multiple images, each with data from one head/surface? ...
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On a new PC with PCI 4.0 express SSD: Cloning or new install of Windows? Any performance differences?

I recently received a new laptop, my old one is really in a stage in which productive work is not possible anymore. The new laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GTX 4080 12 Gb and a 12900 processor and ...
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Trying to understanding VirtualBox linked clones

I have a fresh Windows 10 installation in a virtual machine. I want to keep it that way except for Windows updates. I now want to have a running Windows 10 with additional software. My thought is to ...
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Cloning EXTERNAL hard drive to INTERNAL hard drive

The process of cloning an internal hard drive onto an external one is pretty well described by online guides but I can't seem to find any info on the opposite. I want to replace my internal SSD with ...
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Clone disk to slightly smaller SSD

I am using Linux (Fedora 21) and have a 500GB SSHD that shows some failure errors. I bought a new SSD disk of 480GB and I want to clone the SSHD to the SSD. There is more than enough free space, so ...
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Disk size shows the same after cloning a small disk to a larger disk

I am running Windows 10 Pro and I cloned (disk-to-disk) my 120GB SSD drive to a larger 2TB SATA drive because I was running out of disk space on the 120GB. I used Clonezilla and everything finished ...
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Cloning SSD to USB but Windows fails to boot

After I cloned my SSD (size:120GB) to an USB (128GB) with EaseUS Partition Master and tried to boot my Motile M142 laptop from the USB, it gave me the same error message of "0xc000000e" I ...
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Disk cloning trouble due to slight size mismatch between source and target

I tried to clone sdb onto sdc but that failed due to a marginal size mismatch. I tried recovery options using gdisk to no avail. What are my options now for starting again from scratch? The source ...
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How to make a clone of a bootable USB?

I have a bootable USB for OSX El Capitan that I got from a friend. I need to make a copy of that on my USB. How do I clone that or make it into an ISO and clone the ISO into my USB in Mac?
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Clone Drive Using Linux DD Command: Send IMG Over SSH Connection

I SSH to a VPN running Ubuntu Linux. To make backup copies of the hard drive, I use the following dd command: sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/home/rick/hdImage-20150704.img It works, however, is there a way ...
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Tried cloning Windows 11 Drive, Failed

I have used a GPartEd boot disk to clone a Windows 11 drive, but it is not booting. I had the new drive attached by USB and the system booted into GPartEd. 1. Created the same GPT partition table on ...
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSOD after cloning a drive, but only when the old drive is still connected

I've used Clonezilla to copy my Windows installation to a new drive. I have done a disk-to-disk copy, from the old SATA SSD to the new NVMe SSD. Upon removing the old drive, the new drive boots just ...
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An error occures everytime I duplicate my Rocky Linux vmdk

I have recently studied Rocky Linux (the really basics) and sometimes I "mess" with the OS (doing some experiments to learn about it and how it works). In order to not install it on an ...
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Getting "fatal: repository not found" when "git clone" a URL

This must be something basic but I can't figure it out. I have a github URL that has the form "https://.../tree/main". How do I download the contents? In response to git clone https://.../...
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Lost admin access after disk clone although can still log in but just cannot access anything that needs admin rights

I have a very strange and annoying problem. My 128GB SSD drive which was the boot drive with Windows 7 pro installed was full so I got a 1TB SSD and cloned the old drive to the new one using minitool ...
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Clone HDD to USB to SSD?

I bought a new computer (ASUS G551JM) with a hard disk drive (1TB 7200 RPM), but I want to transfer the OS (and everything else) onto my Samsung EVO 840 (500GB). However, when I purchased the SSD from ...
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For automating a full backup of a VM, is exporting as an appliance better than cloning the VM?

I recently had a mishap on my VM, where for somereason the settings of my BridgeNetwork got changed randomly. I had to spend quite a bit of time to figure out the root cause. Rightnow, I manually copy ...
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How to clone desktop NVMe into a bigger one?

I currently have a 2TB Samsung NVMe with several partitions, C being the system partition (Windows 11). I purchased a 4TB WD NVMe that I'd like to upgrade to. The Samsung is installed in one of the ...
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Extremely slow git clone on windows

I am cloning a repository that is on BitBucket server, but my cloning speed is extremely slow. See the attached screenshot. I tried cloning with TortoiseGit, GitBash, SourceTree but all of them have ...
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hg clone using tortoisehg throws “getaddrinfo failed” error on Windows XP

I have Windows XP installed in my system.I have installed tortoisehg-2.10-hg-2.8-x86.msi. I have checkpoint vpn1-secuRemote installed on my system. I am trying to clone a project.But when i clone a ...
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ASUS Laptop Move from HDD to SSD with original windows 7 and OEM Partition

my laptop: ASUS; Windows 7 Home edition sp1 2009 original; 25 GB partition for Windows OEM for factory recovery; MBR 700GB HDD Drive. HDD has bad sectors: over 40KB per partition. But Windows ...
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Is it possible to use a cloned operating system through an external disk connected by USB?

I'm trying to clone a laptop's disk using an external hard drive in order to then use it on a different computer. The problem is that while the external HDD has enough space (1TB), the other computer ...
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Neither disk booting windows 10 after cloning

Last week I changed the boot (C:) drive for my dad's computer as the old one was too small (only had 10GB of space left). I tried cloning the disk with Macrium Reflect Free Trial. All seemed to go ...
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Data dependency of linked clones in VirtualBox

What is the data dependency between parent and child clone? I know that e.g. installations in the child clone are not available in the parent (that's the reason to have children). But are changes in ...
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Disk shows wrong size after clone from 64GB SSD to a 1TB SSD

I'm trying to understand the permanently reduced capacity after disk clone. We cloned from a 64GB SSD to a Transcend M.2 1TB SSD (with SATA adapter) using an Addonics Disk Duplicator (I guess it does ...
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Can not clone a repository with ssh from bitbucket

I have a bit bucket repository and I am trying to clone it using SSH. I followed the instruction here: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-an-ssh-key/ and I can get see that I ...
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Httrack and cookies, my files appear like not logged

I want download all videos and images of a course in a webpage.. I am using httrack command line.. and I've downloaded my cookies with a extension chrome... I've set the cookies.txt in the proyect ...
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Can you successfully clone a Mac OS X boot volume directly to another larger volume with ddrescue?

Can you clone a Mac OS X boot volume (specifically a "Mac OS Extended, Journaled" a.k.a. JHFS+ volume) directly to another, larger volume using ddrescue or even dd, and have the target volume end up ...
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Instant Clone in vdi horizon

i new in vdi horizon and i am really confused , in vdi horizon instant clone , floating desktops , do the instant clones have their own dedicated Memory and CPU resources , or instant clones are ...
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Reboot and select proper boot device Error

In the morning I was using my desktop without any issues. I left my apartment for about 2 hours, returned back home to find the my mouse and screen frozen. I restart my computer and get the error: &...
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How to add NVMe drivers to an SSD to a cloned Windows installation to use in new computer so the system can boot?

I used a disc cloning software to clone a non-nvme drive into an NVMe drive. The problem is that I need to add a couple drivers for Windows to boot. Namely, the NVMe drivers. This includes 2 hotfixes ...
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How to fix Ubuntu 22.04 UEFI boot GPT issues after simple dd clone to larger disk

I have a healthy Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation on a 1TB SSD It's a simple disk-- not using LVM, just two partitions: the 512 MiB EFI System Partition and the rest is one big ext4 partition for the OS ...
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Full clone from one host to another

I have a headless mini-pc running Ubuntu Server 18.04 - nothing special, just a "Beelink Gemini X55" 8GB RAM, 128Gb SSD. Its benchmark's are quite impressive compared to VPS alternatives and even ...
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Driveimage xml hard drive copy after back up?

I started by trying to restore my system from a system image but later found out that didn’t include a copy of the actual operating system so that wasn’t helpful. Edited to add: I also tried to just ...
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How do I clone a game CD- or DVD-rom that gives IO-errors whenever I try to clone it, but I can access the files just fine?

EDIT: I managed to do it with Gnome Disk Utils, as it just replaces unreadable bytes with 0s I am trying to make a backup of all my old CD- and DVD-rom games so that I can access them from anywhere ...
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What's the laziest way of creating a Linux ISO?

I have extremely limited knowledge on all and everything surrounding Linux and Distributions. I wanted to and have created an Arch Linux install that is for writing text only. It boots up, lets me ...
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Remove defect SSD and start from new SSD in new slot

Unfortunately my original SSD (or slot) of my HP Zbook Studio G4 is defect and results in sudden crashes (blue screens and then a 3F0 error). Therefore I would like to install a new SSD in my second ...
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clone/copy/create a new skype group from another skype group with removal of some of the participants

I want to create a new Skype group with almost all the participants from another Skype group (~100 participants); how can I do that, without noting down each colleague's id and, latter, add him/her in ...
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How can I clone a (physical) hard drive directly to a vdi image on WINDOWS

This question is based on How can I clone a hard drive directly to a vdi image ps. I've done this question only to share the answer. PS. Obviously you need to install Virtualbox to be able to do it.....
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Clone a Windows2000 System Disk

I have an old Windows 2K PC which needs to be kept going for a few more years. It cannot be replaced by a modern PC because of driver availability issues so I want to create a clone of the HDD as ...
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Why must "Acronis Rescue Media" be used when cloning an operating systems boot drive?

I'm trying to migrate my current Windows 10 installation from a 256GB NVME disk to a 2TB one. I'm working through some of the documentation for this cloning utility provided by Western Digital and ...
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Incremental cloning with preview [closed]

I have a laptop with two internal disks (SSDs). I would like to use the second internal disk as a clone of my main one. I would like this to be a full system clone: If my main disk dies, I want to be ...
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Windows 11 not booting after cloning

I have 2 M.2 drives in my laptop, a 500GB one which is the current OS disk and a new 2TB one, which is where I would like to clone Windows 11 to. I have tried using tools like Samsung Magician and ...
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How to change the MAC address of a networking interface on FreeBSD 11.1

I'm trying to change the MAC address of my network card (a generic card using an Intel chipset) on my. system that is running FreeBSD (FREEBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p7). I get the following output when I ...
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Ubuntu 18 computer freezes on copy/clone of SCSI disks

How can I debug this? I have an Ubuntu 18 installation that goes years between total freezes of the computer, but it locks up each time within 20 minutes or so of trying to copy or clone a partition ...
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Clone a bootable M2-SSD (Win10) to a new M2-SDD-Volume containing (Win11)

I have an HP laptop (1) with Windows 11 22H2 installed and another HP laptop (2) with Windows 10. Would it be possible to clone/image the windows 10 M2-ssd to be another bootable volume on the Windows ...

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