> Bjorn - One way to do this is to install an additional, identical hard drive > as a slave in the system. Assuming you are using IDE drives, then use > > dd if=hda of=hdb bs=1024 > > This will make a complete copy of drive a on drive b. Just make sure you > know which is which -- use fdisk -l to be sure. -Glenn. Actually, this would make drive "b" an exact copy of drive "a" (subtle difference).
You could make an image of your hard drive as a file using the same command: dd if=/dev/hda of=myhdd.img bs=1024 This image could be stored on a remote machine and could be written back to a drive by: dd if=myhdd.img of=/dev/hda bs=1024 -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. // On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. // --Peter J. Schoenster
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