On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:39:56PM -0500, Ivan Marin wrote: > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 > > assuming that sda is the working disk and sdb is the new, unformatted and > unpartitioned disk. So if hte machine breaks, I can get the new disk and put > in a new machine and everything should work. This server is doing firewall > and openvpn, etc, no X, no fancy stuff. Is this going to work? What do you > guys think? Hello, I think it would be useful to know more about the filesystem estructure, i.e, LVM, softRAID, etc... Anyhow, if you can have HDs swapped, you can also have a live CD played, do you? A Clonezilla[1] live CD could be very useful here. BTW, if that box has no LVM implemented, this is a good chance to do it, IMHO. Regards. [1] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clonezilla/clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28-686.iso -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB
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