Procedures for External Disk Imaging

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DRAFT Plan for copying drives (though we might image in the future)

1. Format 1TB drive on BigMac to Mac OS extended (not journalled!) HFS +

2. Drive name should be “Transfer#” without the quotes

3. Torch Relay drives broken into chunks that allow for their copying to 1TB drives. Chunks are grouped in folders titled as follows: “OTR_VANOC-Drive#1_VANOC#1_1of3” where “OTR_VANOC-Drive#1” is the name written on the outside of the drive’s box, “VANOC#1” is the name of the drive when you plug it in, and “1of3” means that it is the first of three chunks for the drive.

4. Connect Torch Relay drive to Archivematica-1 or -2 or Server machine via eSATA Connect Transfer# to same Archivematica-1 or -2 or Server machine via eSATA

5. Restart computer with both drives plugged in.

6 Set up mounts. Make two folders named after the drives in Demo. Open Gparted to find out where the devices are located (will look like “dev/sda2”). Enter into terminal “sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home/demo/NameOfDrive

7. Change permissions on both drives. In terminal, enter sudo chmod 777 /home/demo/NameOfDrive

This allows the user to write to the HFS+ drive

8. Open Grsync

9. Browse to source directory

10. Browse to target directory and then append with new folder name Name should reflect accession number and name reflective of the contents of the Torch Relay drive (unless it is already named, in which case, use that name)

9. Include command line in Grsync in the field for “additional options” allowing for log file to be copied to the new folder on Transfer#

In space provided, type --log-file=/Volumes/Transfer#/AddMSS####_FolderName.log Where FolderName is the same as the folder name of the target. DO NOT USE NUMBER SIGNS, GRSYNC WILL NOT SEE THEM.

10. Execute Grysnc

11. Run checksums on each chunk on new drive.

12. Enter drive information in the External Drive Tracking spreadsheet for VANOC acquisition in VanDocs (DOC/2010/045979)

For Drobo

Attach firewire dock to BigMac Format HFS+ (see above) Run rsync in terminal using the following command rsync -rvci --log-file=/Volumes/Transfer#/AddMSS1550_FolderName.log /Volumes/Drobo/FolderName /Volumes/Transfer#/AddMSS1550_FolderName/


 * This creates a copy and log file for rsync, but no checksum. Checksums will be done on the image backup.

Enter drive information in the External Drive Tracking spreadsheet for VANOC acquisition in VanDocs (DOC/2010/045979)