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Re: Hard Drive Mirroring



On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 22:00:12 +0200, Vincent Kruger wrote:

> Hi.... I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to
> get information from.
> I've tried google and the other stuff. but nothing...

If you want to mirror the disk all time, you need RAID1 (software or
hardware). If you only want to mirror it once, you should first remount it
readonly. Then you can copy the disk using dd:
dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY bs=10M
> 
> if anyone has any information or manuals please send for me
> vince@webonline.co.za
> 
> thanks. :D



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