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Re: backing up a drive



On Monday 20 March 2006 13:32, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another).
> It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so
> unless I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a
> veterinary clinic software so I don't think that there is a free
> alternative)

dd if=<source device> of=<destination device> will make a bit-for-bit copy of 
the original media.

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