using dd to backup entire hard drive

[George Toft]

Did you swap out your hard drive and see if you can boot from the
backup?

George



Craig White wrote:
> 
> As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahead
> and did it.
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512
> 
> and it worked fine (target drive was slave on secondary controller,
> hence /dev/hdd
> 
> copied everything but left the extra space on the target drive
> unpartitioned and obviously parted would have to be used to move and/or
> resize partitions.
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:43, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Craig asked the original question but I am going to jump in with my twist.  I think it still fits Craigs situation.
> >
> > I want to upgrade a 10GB hard drive with Win98 and Linux partitions (dual boot) to a much larger drive.  I would like to use dd to copy all the current drive contents to the larger drive, boot the larger drive and then place partitions, etc. on the unused space.  Will that work?
> >
> > Alan
> >
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> > From: technomage <technomage-hawke@cox.net>
> > Sent: 01/30/03 03:36 PM
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> > Subject: Re: using dd to backup entire hard drive
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> > I've done this in a way.
> >
> > firstly, both HD's have to be of siliar size.
> >
> > then you just have to do this:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx(2)
> >
> > its a direct copy. I've done it with a couple of 10 GB monsters a while
> > ago
> > (3 or 4 partitions). everything gets copied and the new drive even booted.
> >
> >
> > Technomage
> >
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