on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart (richrlo@mts.net) wrote:
> I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new
> hard drive. I got a lemon hd (still perfect electronicly but making
> ugly noises). A replacement is on the way from the manufacturer but
> I'm not sure about the best way to mirror a-b.
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly
recommend 72 as a good default.
Thank you.
> I've looked at www.Linux-Backup.net:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024
>
> That would do it?
In a few days.
dd does a binary copy of the device itself. This of little use unless
you're interested in doing forensics on scrambled data. There's likely
to be much slack space.
Better:
$ mkdir /mnt/oldhd
$ mkdri /mnt/newhd
$ mount /dev/hda /mnt/oldhd
$ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/newhd
$ cd /mnt/oldhd
$ tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/newhd; tar xf - )
(rsync, or cp -padR are other alternatives).
Peace.
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