Re: Clone of hard drive
> Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive?
> This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right
> back up. If it is, how would I go about it?
>
"dd if=/dev/hd?x of=image-file" to save it,
"dd if=image-file of=/dev/hd?x" to restore it (beware!!!).
you could copy from one partition to another directly, too.
you can handle any block device that way, the possibilities are
nearly endless.
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