Generate a Drive Image

As an alternative to generating support packages and extracting log files, a MetaDefender Drive image can be generated from a Linux machine via terminal commands.

Generate a MetaDefender Drive Image

1. Insert the MetaDefender Drive that you want to clone into a running Linux machine.
2. Launch the terminal, and run the following command:

lsblk -o name,serial,mountpoint

3. Identify the drive you want to clone by the serial value, then copy its name. In the sample image below, the drive to be cloned is /dev/sdb

A Linux terminal window showing all the mounted Drives

4. Run the following command after replacing/dev/sdx with your drive's name and /path/to/img/Drive.img.gz4 with the filesystem location and the file name where you want the image saved.

sudo dd if=/dev/sdx bs=1024 status=progress | gzip -c > /path/to/img/Drive.img.gz4. fd

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