Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 01:57:15AM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > >Alejandro wrote: > >>Paul Johnson wrote: > >>>http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting > Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but > different models like this: > >>>Yes, it is. As

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 23 December 2006 04:57, Alejandro wrote: > Finally: booting from a live CD and executing "dd if=A of=B"...is > there any risk of lost of data or damage of the source hard disk (A) > using the "dd" command ??? Because it's the firt time I need to clon > an entire disk of a data base ser

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-22 Thread Alejandro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Alejandro wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but different models like this: Yes, it is. As long as the disks are the same size, the rest is just details. Dear Paul, just a l

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alejandro wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but different models like this: Yes, it is. As long as the disks are the same size, the rest is just details. Dear Paul, just a last short question: s

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-22 Thread Alejandro
Paul Johnson wrote: http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting Alejandro wrote: Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but different models like this: Yes, it is. As long as the disks are the same size, the rest is just details. Dear Paul, just a last short qu

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting Alejandro wrote: > Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but > different models like this: Yes, it is. As long as the disks are the same size, the rest is just details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Alejandro wrote: > Hi all, I have a Debian Etch machine with a SCSI HD as a master disk. I > want to make a clon to another similar SCSI HD (same model and size), in > order to use it if the production disk fails. > > People talk about "dd" command, telling it's possible to get a exact > mirror f

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Bob McGowan
I believe this would be OK, so long as you're really sure the size is the same. Two suggestions. First, another poster mentioned using a RAID 1 setup. This would let you verify that the sizes are in fact the same and provide automatic redundancy if a disk fails (no system down time due to t

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Alejandro
Bob and other people, thanks for your response, it's very important to me. But I have my last short question: Is it possible to use "dd" if I have to disks with the same size but different models like this: Disk A: description: SCSI Disk product: SAMSUNG SP0812C vendor: ATA physical id: 0.0.0 bu

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:25:15PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Hi all, I have a Debian Etch machine with a SCSI HD as a master disk. I > want to make a clon to another similar SCSI HD (same model and size), in > order to use it if the production disk fails. > > People talk about "dd" command, tellin

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Short answer: yes, that will work. Longer: showing example from my system. # dd if=/dev/sda of=sda-blocks bs=1024 count=4 4+0 records in 4+0 records out 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.0101397 seconds, 404 kB/s # ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-12-21 08:33 sda-blocks # file sd* sd

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-21 Thread Emerson Dorow
MBR is copied together, because the copy is full, bit to bit... Em Qui, 2006-12-21 às 13:25 -0300, Alejandro escreveu: > Hi all, I have a Debian Etch machine with a SCSI HD as a master disk. I > want to make a clon to another similar SCSI HD (same model and size), in > order to use i