Have a look at 'dd'. I used it to move partitions from one disk to another (even
Windows9X/NT
partitions :-). It makes a bitwise copy of anything on the partition. Just make sure
the partition
is not mounted rw (otherwise data might change while copying). I don't know the
parameters
by hard but it shouldn't be to difficult.
Nico
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Bruce Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I we an old IBM 486 machine, running a RedHat Linux kernal 2.0.7 (RH 4.2 ?). This
>machine has been running almost non stop for the past 3+ yrs. Over the past month or
>so it has crashed a few times.
>
> I need to copy an image of the drive to another drive of the same size, As a backup
>or replacement or the current drive. This machine will replaced/updated soon but we
>need it running till then.
>
> Could somebody give me some suggestions on how to do this?
>
>
>
>
>
> The machine is used for sending pager messages via its webserver. The OS is on a
>single root partition of ~150Mb.
>
> Computer - IBM PS/2 56 SLC2 - 486
> 16Mb ram, 270Mb SCSI Hdrive
> Network - Token ring
> Bus - Microchannel
>
>
>
>
> Bruce Williams
> Biomedical Engineering
> Royal North Shore Hospital
> Sydney, Australia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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