Alejandro wrote: > Hi all, I have a Debian Etch machine with a SCSI HD as a master disk. I > want to make a clon to another similar SCSI HD (same model and size), in > order to use it if the production disk fails. > > People talk about "dd" command, telling it's possible to get a exact > mirror from one disk to another just running this: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > Is this just the solution ??? No matter with the MBR or something else ???
That only works if both disks are the same size. If that's not the case, take a look at the Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO. http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
