Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-24 Thread deja luser
ition, but under 2.1 with 2.2.12 kernel (that Oreilly disk) I was able to make 2gig files. From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Clone of hard drive Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 10:22:46 +0200 Received: f

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:26:43PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. Partition and format the new drive using the standard > tools, then use a `cpio' archive or `cpio' in copythrough mode to > clone the filesystem.

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On 19 May 2000 18:26:43 PDT, Karl M. Hegbloom writes: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. It works. The second disk has to be >= the first and be able to do with the same translation (so don“t have your disks on AUTO in the BIOS and specify the translat

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:45:03 PDT, Jay Kelly writes: >Hello All, >Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? >This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right >back up. If it is, how would I go about it? The best way is to have identical d

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to Jay> another drive? This way in the event of hard drive failure I Jay> can swap drives and be right back up. If it is, how would I Jay> go about it? Don't use

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:41:55AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Read the M (as in RTFM) of raid!! > Ron Rademaker You mean the one about how to quote and trim mail messages? > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello All, > > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or t

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Read the M (as in RTFM) of raid!! Ron Rademaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello All, > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right > back up. If it is, how would I go about

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Jay Kelly wrote: Yes, and there's more than one way to do it, but the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini HOWTO should get you started on it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Tom > > Hello All, > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right > back up. If it is, how would I go about it? > "dd if=/dev/hd?x of=image-file" to save it, "dd if=image-file of=/dev/hd?x" to restore it (bew