[ale] disk copy

[danny at compgen.com (Danny Cox)]

Carl,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Carl Forsell wrote:
> I have a SuSE6.4 based proxy machine that is working fine... so well in
> fact, that the boss wants two identical copies (one copy of the hard drive
> to go into another machine and one to sit on the shelf).
> 
> Is there an easy way to make an exact copy of the IDE harddrive on a linux
> box?

	If you have a destination hard drive that's EXACTLY the same as
the source, then you might use dd (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k).  
Otherwise, use tar, rsync, or even "cp --recursive --archive /some/path 
/dest".  You'll have to repeat this for each partition....

Danny

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