Duplicating a harddrive

[Joel Dudley]

Well, hmmmm, does being able to back up your whole hard drive REGARDLESS OF
WHAT OS IS ON IT Have anything to do with backing up a linux install.

- Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Johnson <ej@netasm.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Duplicating a harddrive


> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Joel Dudley wrote:
> : Norton ghost is awesome, then, if you fu%@k up your drive you just ghost
> : away.
>
> I'm sure it is. What does that have to do with backup in Linux?
>
> : - Joel
> : ----- Original Message -----
> : From: The Wolf <xanadu@speedchoice.com>
> : To: PLUG <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> : Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 3:45 PM
> : Subject: Duplicating a harddrive
> :
> :
> : > Hi
> : >
> : > I have finally managed to get my whole system setup to
> : > a point I like it.  Now I am thinking of backing it up
> : > how can I duplicate a drive or what other methods
> : > can I implement to be able to back it up??
> : >
> : > The Wolf
>
> Presuming your newly installed drive is /dev/hda, and your dup drive
> is /dev/hdc; and presuming you have partitioned /dev/hdc the same as
> /dev/hda; and presuming your mount points are / and /usr; and presuming
> you have dump installed; you can:
>
> # init 1
> [ stuff happens ]
> # mkdir /tmp/hdc1
> # mount /dev/hdc1 /tmp/hdc1
> # dump -0 -f - /dev/hda1 | (cd /tmp/hdc1; restore -x -f -)
> # umount /dev/hdc1
> # mkdir /tmp/hdc3
> # mount /dev/hdc3 /tmp/hdc3
> # dump -0 -f - /dev/hda3 | (cd /tmp/hdc3; restore -x -f -)
> # umount /dev/hdc3
> # exit (or halt and remove your dup drive, or whatever)
>
> Install boot blocks on your dup drive and you're set.
>
> If you just want an image file (ala Ghost, which you can almost emulate,
> per partition, at least) by changing the dump command to:
>
> # dump -0 -f - /dev/hda1 > /tmp/hdc1/hda1.img
> # dump -0 -f - /dev/hda3 > /tmp/hdc3/hda3.img
>
> and then copying the image files somewhere "safe".
>
> You can also use tar and cpio and ...
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