At 2003-09-02T04:58:31Z, Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess if your 2nd hard disk is the same size or larger than the first > and you want an exact copy of everything then dd might be the way to do > it.
Umm, no. dd gives consistent backups *only if* the drive being copied not mounted writeable. If not, then there's a very significant possibility that the backup may not even be fsck'able. rsync is pretty handy for syncing live filesystems. -- Kirk Strauser
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