The dd can be from a live cdrom or from a small partition on the box reserved just for this purpose. The latter is no good in the case of a dead disk but is convenient otherwise.

What about mirrordir? Assuming equal partitions on 2 disks, say from a prior dd run, how does the result of

mirrordir --strict-locking / /mnt/backup

compare with appropriately using dd?  (/dev/hdb1 is mounted on /mnt/backup)

Seems like mirrordir makes a nice backup option too? Thanks any comments - John



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