On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Kent Andersen wrote:
> what would be the procedure for making a perfect bootable copy of a primary
> linux drive?
> say I have two exact drives and want to make a backup of the first one so I
> could boot it in another computer?
read the howto ... google for it ... try it ...test it .. play with it
and if you have $$$$, try buying ghost or other commercial app
and watch those puppies die for one reason or another
or even better ...
fdisk your-second-disk
mount /dev/your-second-disk /mnt/clone
cd / ; tar cf $DIR | ( cd /mnt/clone ; tar xvfp - )
lilo or grub or dd the MBR data
umount /mnt/clone
c ya
alvin
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