hi ya r.
dd is a bit level copying ... good and bad... but...
it depends on "why your disks is bad" in the first place
if you have a flaky disks... you might unknowingly be copying the bad
part to the new disks too ...
i'd use tar instead to copy the data to the new disks
- a few more commands but is a better/sure way to leave
the flaky sectors on the flaky disk
also make sure the new disks is bad'blocked formated so that
you dont have the same (flaky disk_ problem on new disk
have fun
alvin
On Mon, 20 May 2002, R. Lockhart wrote:
> I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new hard
> drive. I got a
> lemon hd (still perfect electronicly but making ugly noises). A replacement
> is on the
> way from the manufacturer but I'm not sure about the best way to mirror a-b.
>
> I've looked at www.Linux-Backup.net:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024
>
> That would do it?
>
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