On Mon, 19 May 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> 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.
1) Google for tomsrtbt and make a boot floppy.
2) Attach the new hdd as a slave.
3) Boot off the floppy.
4) Partition, format, and mount the new hdd (lets assume its
/mnt/newhdd)
5) Go to the root of the old hdd, and do a
'pax -w . | ( cd /mnt/newhdd ; pax -r -p e )'
6) Remove the old hdd and make the new hdd master.
7) Boot off tomsrtbt one last time, mount and chroot the new hdd and
run lilo.
8) Reboot.
(Hey, it works for me).
More fun: If your network card is generic enough, and you have a server
somewhere, you can start a netcat session listening on the server, and
saving its output to a file, and pipe pax to a netcat session. Reverse
for the new hdd. I tend to upgrade laptop hdds that way. :)
~ Jesse Meyer
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