Re: backup

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 12:46:48AM +1100, Lawrence wrote:
> Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> > I have 2 harddrives in my system. The main hd is going bad
> > and I would like to copy everything to the second and use
> > that as the main drive.
> > 
> > Is it possible to copy EVERYTHING to the second hd and just
> > run lilo on it ?
> > If so, anyone know all the options to use with cp for this
> > to work ? (or a complete command line that worked)
> 
> Try PowerQuest DriveImage or DriveCopy, DriveImage copies partition by
> partition and DriveCopy copies drive by drive.

dd does both.
It's probably not what Matthew wants though.

hamish
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