Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility
hi ya
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Keith Goettert wrote:
> The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a
> copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would
> like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them
> painlessly.
too late ....
if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably
kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more
reads/write
disks dies for multiple reasons ... pick the right one for why
your disk is dying .. and prevent it next time
if you want to burn a cdrom ...
you need more disk space on a clean disk
if you want to do a disk to disk copy .. presumably you
already have a good disk ...and you have excluded bad cables,
bad memory, bad motherboard, etc as possible reasons
for why the disks appear to be bad ??
assuming everything is still functional
assuming your new disk ( hdc ) is on a new cable
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - )
sync ; umount /mnt/hdc1
repeat for each partition
if your disk is functional ... the above disk to disk will work
if your disk is dying ........ the aboce will copy parts of the disk
and some files will be corrupt .. which ones is bad is the "test"
=== best bet ...
-- restore your data from backups onto a new disk
-- leave the current disk alone .. retire it as is ...
c ya
alvin
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