On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Moti Levy wrote:
Hi,
Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as
well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or
magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive
is .... (can't find the word).
--Ariel
> Hi all,
> I have a linux box which is a mail server for a small company nothing
> fancy a PII266 and a 4.3 wd hdd.
> any way i was asked to prepare some sort of backup to it and thought of
> the following system.
> 1.connect a similar hd (model and size)
> 2.partiton it the same way the original hdd
> 3.use dd to copy each partition to the same partition on second hdd .
> 4.put it into crontab so it'll replay this every other week .
> Its a redhat 5.1 with a 2.3.41 kernel so i dont want to mess with mirror
> and kernel upgrades ( as the wise technician said - if it works don't
> touch it !!!)
> any idea's comments or objections would be greatly appreciated.
> Moti
>
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