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Re: Clone root partition



On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:08:14 -0300, Alejandro wrote:

> Suppose I have a production server with a /dev/sda disk and I mount a 
> second disk /dev/sdb in order to clon sda to sdb (booting from a live 
> cd). Sdb is the disk from a backup server (similar to the production 
> server) I want to use when the production server fails.
> 
> After doing "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10k"...do I have to do 
> something on /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst from the second drive 
> when this second disk is on the backup server ?? Or nothing else to do 
> in the second disk is OK to start the backup server ???

nothing else to do, as long as the second disk is used as sda in the
backup server, or to replace the failed original sda on the production
server.

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