Cloning to Different Hardware
Apologies: I am sure that my question has been addressed before, but I cannot phrase my search well enough to locate it.
I use removable hard drives, (RHDs), and cloning, (not imaging) as a backup strategy. All of my RHDs are identical. I use basic formatting with no partitions, and clone cyclically. This strategy has worked well for half a dozen years now, but recently one of my RHDs has crashed and I need to replace it. Unfortunately that specific drive is no longer available.
My question: If I replace my defunct RHD with a new and different brand, (and probably also only a larger size will be available); will I be able to resume my cyclical cloning strategy? (Specifically, I would now be routinely cloning Different Brand & Size => Different Brand & Size.)
Thank you very much for your insights,
~~zapatero
Thank you for your reply, Pat.
When you say,
Otherwise, ATI will scale the partitions and that result in problems in some cases.
If the amount of actually used disk space is much smaller than the disk size, (for all of the disk sizes), then may I assume that these problems won't happen? Or, am I presuming the wrong issue?
The issues could rather be in the area of disk alignment with SSDs, or bootability on some systems if certain hidden partitions' size are changing.