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Re: HDD clone



On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:00:36AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Why not use RAID? Its purpose is to provide a realtime backup if a hard-
disk fails. RAID seem to be especially appropriate since the harddisks
are identical.

/Hans

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