on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:54:37AM +0100, Schmidt, Thorsten (T.SCHMIDT@eckelmann.de) wrote: > On Dienstag, 20. November 2001, François THOMAS [francoist@alsdesign.fr] wrote: > > I have just installed a second SCSI HDD on a production Debian > > system. The new HDD is exactly the same model as the first one. I > > want to make an exact copy of the first drive on the second, in > > order to have a rescue solution if something bad happens to the > > server (just replace one drive with the other and boot on it: prod > > server should then be back online). > > Can somebody point me to some tool which is able to make such a > > clone copy ? > I think this sould be possible with "dd" when you're using /dev/sdX as input > and /dev/sdY as output but I'm not sure about that. You sould read the > manual bevore trying it. dd will do the job for a precise binary copy. This is overkill in the vast majority of circumstances, and slow as hell to boot (copying a healthy-sized disk could take most of a day or more). Tar or incremental updates via rsync are far more appropriate. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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