Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the > console that various things went wrong. > All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die. > > How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details > and all) over to another

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:07:34PM +0200, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > High, > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg > > details and all) over to another disk (which I'm just about to buy) > > and then removin

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya gazillion ways to backup a disk... best is to use tar/cpio, etc... ( dd can be good or bad...you'd need to know what you are copying http://www.Linux-Backup.net - lots of free code/examples if the (new) message is just "device not ready etc"... check your ide cable and/or

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Heldebrant
This may be a great time to buy a nice tapedrive and learn the joy of dump and regular backups. If someone else is footing the bill go for a dds-4 or vxa drive. Otherwise "beg, borrow or steal" a DDS-1 or 2 and some tapes. Get a nice new maxtor disk. They're so quiet you can't even hear it shre

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all > > My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the > console that various things went wrong. > All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die. > > How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details

Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all My server's harddisk is making weird noises and telling me at the console that various things went wrong. All in all, I reckon the drive is about to die. How would people go about transferring the whole system (dpkg details and all) over to another disk (which I'm just about to buy) and th