Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure
This may be a great time to buy a nice tapedrive and learn the joy of
dump and regular backups. If someone else is footing the bill go for a
dds-4 or vxa drive. Otherwise "beg, borrow or steal" a DDS-1 or 2 and
some tapes. Get a nice new maxtor disk. They're so quiet you can't
even hear it shredding.
--mike
On 08 Aug 2001 19:07:05 +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the
> console that various things went wrong.
> All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die.
>
> How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details
> and all) over to another disk (which I'm just about to buy) and then
> removing the faulty one?
> I've got no problem with putting the two disks in concurrently, but I'm
> not sure how to go about moving it all, short of bzipping each partition
> up. Even then, would that actually guarantee a working system?
>
> As an aside, I'd also be interested in any suggestions for drive
> makes/models around the 10+gig mark that are competitively priced. Uk
> specific if poss, Oxford specific even better :-)
> It's to go in a P133, IDE system - nothing fancy here!
>
> cheers,
> jc
>
>
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