you know.... I want to clone my drive because I thought you really On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: > I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with: > rsync -vaxHXY --checksum /path1 /path2 /path3 someone@remotebox:/mybackup > The 'x' constrain the sweep to a partition to avoid memory directories > (/proc, /dev, /sys) which forces to explicitly name every mounted directory > to copy. > Then you can 'restore' with: > rsync -vaxHXY --checksum someone@remotebox:/mybackup / > All the options are important (except '-v'), but specially '-H' *HAS* to > be there if you are cloning directories with kernel files or the resulting > system will eventually become unstable. > Free advise, can't sue me... :) > YMMV > ET > PS: If you have any question, > you will get any answer. > > > > Michael Havens writes: > >> I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a miiror image of my >> hard drive? dd? Or is there a more user friendly way? I kinda want to do >> it >> like a raid would do it. You know.... where I would just recopy the image >> if my computer gets corrupted and it would be like the day I made the >> image...... hmmmm.... google it! I found system rescue cd! ( >> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_**Page ) >> DOes this sound good? What do you all >> recommend? You know, on the first page about this one of the programs is >> partimage and they say that one of the limitations of it is that it does >> not support ext4 filesystem. hmmmmm.... after a bit of reading me thinks >> this doesn't work with ext4 even though the 'Main Page' says it does. Do >> any of you know any differently?..... hmmmmm..... I've been looking but >> all >> of the copy programs say they support ext2 & 3 but not 4. What do you >> say? >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: