Title: RE: complete system backup
Bjorn - Andrew's rephrasing points up the fact that my method overwrites whatever is on hdb. The fact that hdb is an exact copy allows you to use hdb as a boot device. Just move the jumpers on both drives to make hda the slave and hdb the master.
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> 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
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.
Hi,
You would get very close to that by making a dd image of your partitions
and write them on another machine.
There are some imaging programs for linux.
As i recall, one sets up a server containing the images of the various
machines
and can then restore/install from the server.
I hav'nt used any
Search for mondo...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi there,
I'm having some difficulties making a complete backup from my redhat
system. At the moment i Backup all critical files by copying them over
NFS to my windows PC where i write them on disc. But i would like to
make a "norton ghost"-lik
A really good program that I use is called Partition Image
(http://www.partimage.org/)
It makes the image in tar format, and also does file compression (bzip2
or gzip). Enjoy :)
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