Vince, * vinz <vince@webonline.co.za> [2003-Aug-07 11:25 AKDT]: > Hi.... I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to > get information from. 'dd' will mirror everything from one drive to another (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb), including partition tables, master boot record (MBR), and all the blank space on the disk. It can take a long time if it's a big disk. 'partimage' will allow you to copy just the data from the partitions on the drive. The partimage-doc package has documentation on how to copy the MBR and partition tables. 'rsync' is a great way to keep the files on two filesystems consistent without copying everything each time. It looks at the differences between two directories and copies just what's different. Great program. Depending on what you want, you may wish to consider RAID. There is a HOWTO. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/
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