using dd to backup entire hard drive

[Alan Dayley]

I am very anxious for the answer to this one!  I was going to post the same question to the list later today.  I'm watching closely.

Alan

-------Original Message-------
From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
Sent: 01/30/03 10:13 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: using dd to backup entire hard drive

> 
> I want to back up a linux hard drive completely.

If the hard drive I want to back up is hda and I want to 'clone' the hard
drive 
to hdb, how would I issue the command?

dd bs=4k /dev/hda /dev/hdb

I want everything, including the mbr to be copied. Is there anything that
I 
need to worry about if the target hard drive is larger than the source
hard 
drive? Will the partitions be the same size and the extra space on the
target 
left unpartitioned?

Thanks,

Craig



-------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>