Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote: > >> Personally I'd buy a Hitachi rather than either WD or Seagate. > > Dave, > > Oh? I've not followed hardware in several years so I don't know the > relative reputations of the few remaining manufacturers. I had a Hitachi > drive in the past, but my WD drives have generally been solid and quite > reliable. Of course, that's with IDE drives only.
WD recently broke the ATA specs on new drives in order to force people to buy their expensive drives. I bought several and have had one fail after a short time with an intermittent fault. Seagate have had problems with their attitude to Linux support for a while now. That's my prejudice anyway. >> Since dirvish just stores images of the complete file tree, there's >> nothing to say. Just copy your chosen image into your new file system, >> using cp or rsync or whatever your favourite file copying tool is. > > I did not ask my question well. Will a restoration result in a bootable > hard drive, or do I need to install the OS first, then copy all files over? > Can the boot loader image from the backup be restored to the MBR on the > drive? I'll need to copy partition-by-partition since I'll be putting all > files in the / partition (except for /tmp which I'll make more secure). The way I would do it is to install and configure a new copy of the OS after you've reconfigured your hardware and then copy all your data files over. There is no backup of the MBR, not from dirvish anyway. It copies files, not disk sectors. I thik Thijs was suggesting that you try to do it by restoring a complete system image to your new hardware but that sounds fraught to me. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
