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Re: Clone of hard drive



On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:41:55AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> Read the M (as in RTFM) of raid!!

> Ron Rademaker

You mean the one about how to quote and trim mail messages?

> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote:

> > Hello All,
> > 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?

IIRC a straght copy of the raw device ought to do the job - something
like "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" to copy the data on /dev/hda onto
/dev/hdb.  This asssumes that the disks are identical, of course.

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