"karhong ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an internal HDD running under RH7.3. I would like to purchse > a second HDD(usb external) of same geometry, and use it as a > bootable snapshot of the first internal HDD. > > I wish to make a whole disk bootable backup regularly via this > method. Is this feasible ? How should I approach this ? Any > advice and/or documentations are greatly appreciated.
This does not really pertain to copying live disks, but rather broken ones (s/o grepping the archives might stumble over it that way): http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ It's a tool similar to 'dd' which does the Right Thing when encountering unreadable spots in the input. So long, Joe -- "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -- Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning... was the command line" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
