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Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram



On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote:

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> 
> What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is 
> there a better tool?

to truly mirror the partition you need dd or you could cobble together
a raid 1 setup and then when its done syncing pull it out (probably
overkill, use dd).

otherwise, to just copy over the data, there are many options: tar and
rsync being probably the most common. 

> Why is it better?

whatever suits you. 

A

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