Re: Disk mirroring
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk.
> What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the
> second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do
> it? Of course, I'd like to do it periodically; every night at 11:59, for
> example.
have you considered doing a raid 1 mirror? if not you might want to check
out the software-raid-howto.
to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio:
this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt:
find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt
yours martin
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