This may be a great time to buy a nice tapedrive and learn the joy of dump and regular backups. If someone else is footing the bill go for a dds-4 or vxa drive. Otherwise "beg, borrow or steal" a DDS-1 or 2 and some tapes. Get a nice new maxtor disk. They're so quiet you can't even hear it shredding. --mike
On 08 Aug 2001 19:07:05 +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the > console that various things went wrong. > All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die. > > How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details > and all) over to another disk (which I'm just about to buy) and then > removing the faulty one? > I've got no problem with putting the two disks in concurrently, but I'm > not sure how to go about moving it all, short of bzipping each partition > up. Even then, would that actually guarantee a working system? > > As an aside, I'd also be interested in any suggestions for drive > makes/models around the 10+gig mark that are competitively priced. Uk > specific if poss, Oxford specific even better :-) > It's to go in a P133, IDE system - nothing fancy here! > > cheers, > jc > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
