2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In reality, being raised on real UNIX(TM) systems from long ago and far
> away, it was just one of the things we wanted left unchanged when we did
> backups or shipped tapes to the outside world (one of my many jobs back
> then). There is the possi
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 18:55 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it
> > leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and
> > handles hard-links efficiently.
>
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of "local" copy,
> usually back-up related. I can't recall if the "cp -a" detects and
> handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio
Yes, it seems that "cp -a" is desi
William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> William L. Maltby wrote:
>>>
>
>>> Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you
>>> want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the
>>> above dump/restore set I've
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
> > Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you
> > want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the
> > above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equiva
William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>> Matt wrote:
> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
>
>
>> no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storag
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> >>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
> >>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
> >>>
> no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually
> r
Matt wrote:
>>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
>>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
>>> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
>>> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
>>>
>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
>> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
>> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
>> entire OS and al
Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (17.11.2008 18:42):
>> mkdir /mnt/org
>> mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
>> mkdir /mnt/bckup
>> mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
>>
>> cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
>
> Won't this command choke if there are too many files? I think I have
> run into that before.
If it doe
> Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is
> not in use and mount both drives and do a:
>
> mkdir /mnt/org
> mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
> mkdir /mnt/bckup
> mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
>
> cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
Won't this command choke if there are too many f
Robert wrote:
I should have had the common decency to report that I *did* try this
howto and *was* successful. There were a couple things that caused
some head-scratching.
Yes I also made it work this weekend. I ignored all the stuff regarding
the creation of /etc/mtab and mdadm.conf ... they a
Robert wrote:
Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/s
Bent Terp wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
stupid question ... why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
cuz it's not an md volume to begin with?
one method is to make the 2nd disk a 'half' mirror, with all the sa
Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-gru
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stupid question ... why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
> mirror
cuz it's not an md volume to begin with?
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Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch
I ha
>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
>> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
>> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
>> entire OS and al
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and all
>If you wanted to keep the drives in the same box I'm sure theres a way, with
>linux there always is :)
>Anyone?
Well, if the disc used LVM, you would obviously have to rename the VG/LV's or
there would be duplicates. How about the GUID?
At any rate, I think the OP didnt have this in mind so now
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>
>
> Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >> brute
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
brute force approach...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384
That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before
you boot if you use lvm right?
Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy
actual data which should be quick
>brute force approach...
>
>dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384
That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before
you boot if you use lvm right?
Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy
actual data which should be quick in your case?
jlc
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Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is
not in use and mount both drives and do a:
mkdir /mnt/org
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
mkdir /mnt/bckup
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
umount both drives
then copy mbr
dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and all
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and all the little tw
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