On Thursday 2004-02-19 10:38, Ramón Oliver wrote: | I want to create an exact copy of a whole hard disk and to maintain this copy | synchronised with the "original" one. The idea is to have a safe backup that | allows me, in case the "original" disk fails, to change it by the "clone" | disk and start the computer as if nothing had happened. The computer runs | Linux. | | I heard a good option for this purpose is to use dd to make the copy of the | whole hard disk followed by rsync (launched via crontab) to synchronise the | "original" and "clone" drives. rsync seems ideal for this task, but | | How do I do that with rsync!?
Why don't you use RAID-1? -- Dick Streefland //// Altium BV [EMAIL PROTECTED] (@ @) http://www.altium.com --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
