On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:59:05AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
>
> I just purchased a second 30G drive that I want to use as part of my backup
> strategy. I now have two 30G drives in
> my computer. I don't have a RAID card. I have /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. What
> is
> the best way to mirror /dev/hda?
> I have thought of
>
> dd
> cp
> rsync
>
> but am not sure which method would be most efficient. Are there other methods
> I am leaving out?
>
Hello Lance!
Don't know which is the most efficient way but, you've missed tar:
tar cp src_dir | tar xpf - -C /path/to/dest
which will reproduce the directory hierarchy of src_dir under
/path/to/dest
You can also investigate the functionality of cpio, dump and pax.
Unfortunately I'm not experienced with these. You can try
apt-cache show name
to get a full description of a package and you can also try
apt-cache search backup
to get a list of (hopefully) relevant packages.
HTH,
> Lance
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