Re: Backing up all files on hdd

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

 --- Willem-Jan Meijer <meyer3@chello.nl> escribió: > Hello all,
> 
> My hdd is producing noises I don't like so I think it's time to make a
> backup. I want to backup all files, directories and so on, something like
> norton ghost for M$. So that after my hdd dies I only have to replace the
> backup and that everyting is like before the crash.
> 
> How can I do this?
>

If you have another drive that is larger than the one your system is on, you
can do something like this (substituting for your corresponding partitions):

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1

or, to save an image if somewhere, dd if=/dev/hda1
of=/some/other/drive/file.ext

Swap the second drive into the spot of the first and toss the old drive.

-Roberto Sanchez


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