On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. > What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the > second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do > it? Of course, I'd like to do it periodically; every night at 11:59, for > example.
have you considered doing a raid 1 mirror? if not you might want to check out the software-raid-howto. to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt yours martin -- GnuPG 1024D/3E8DCCC0 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0 work: factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
