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Re: [cobalt-users] Cloning the Hard drive in a RaQ4

At 03:30 PM 12/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:

Hi.,
I need to do some radical changes/additions to my server. Updates,
software installs etc. but I have a system that's OK now. I need to
clone/copy/mirror the drive prior to doing this and wondered if you guys
could suggest the best way to do this.
Les
If you have physical access to the machine, PQ Partition Magic or Drive Copy 4 works well. DD also woks well but is much slower.
PQPM or PQDC require you to put the hard drive into a plain pc with a floppy to make the duplicate. 

DD can be done on the RaQ.

        dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
        Copies everything from a to b (this will take a while)
        "if" is in-file and "of" is out-file

Do not use Norton Ghost, it tends to drop file from the linux partitions.

- Bill B.




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