on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. > I've looked at www.Linux-Backup.net: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024 > > That would do it? In a few days. dd does a binary copy of the device itself. This of little use unless you're interested in doing forensics on scrambled data. There's likely to be much slack space. Better: $ mkdir /mnt/oldhd $ mkdri /mnt/newhd $ mount /dev/hda /mnt/oldhd $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/newhd $ cd /mnt/oldhd $ tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/newhd; tar xf - ) (rsync, or cp -padR are other alternatives). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Iomega: click of death, Jaz Junk, and now, NAS? Not! http://www.google.com/search?q=iomega+jaz+drive+failure
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