Cloning method and system
AssigneeNti AG
InventorsWILLIAM WEIHAN YAO, RAYMOND PATRICK MCGOLDRICK, HIROSHI NISHIMURA, SANFORD TANG
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a method and a system for cloning a source drive to a target drive. A cloning program launches in a host device, and an amount of partitions and a size of each said partition of the source drive are obtained. The size of each corresponding partition in the target drive is adaptively determined according to a size of the source drive and a size of the target drive. The host device is rebooted and contents of the source drive are copied to the target drive.
Claims20
A method for cloning a source drive to a target drive, comprising:
- launching a cloning program in a host device;
- obtaining an amount of partitions and a size of each said partition of the source drive;
- adaptively determining a size of each corresponding partition in the target drive according to a size of the source drive and a size of the target drive;
- rebooting the host device;
- and
- copying contents of the source drive to the target drive.
A cloning system, comprising:
- a target drive;
- and
- a source drive disposed in a host device, which comprises a cloning program capable of being launched to clone the source drive to the target drive by copying contents of the source drive to the target drive;
- wherein the source drive has a plurality of partitions and the target drive has a plurality of partitions corresponding to the partitions of the source drive;
- wherein a size of at least one corresponding partition in the target drive is adaptively determined according to a size of the source drive and a size of the target drive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.