[cobalt-users] Hard drive duplication

["David Hall" <dhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been contemplating in the event of a hard drive
 failure on my RAQ3 what I would do.

I would have to think with price of ide harddrives being only a couple of
hundred US $ the best method would be to make an exact duplicate of the
existing harddrive.
And then simply swapping the hard drives in the event of a failure.
Being (DOS) rather than (LINUX) trained I need advice if this would this be
possible?
And what would be the best method (i.e. removing the hard drive and copy it
off the server, etc.) to go
about doing this?

My other thought would be to purchase a preloaded hard drive from Cobalt as
a spare but with them
charging $99 for a simple restore CD, I hate to think what they would charge
for a preloaded harddrive.
Has anyone ever tried to purchase a preloaded harddrive from Cobalt?
 Also has anyone actually ever done a restore with the CD with a harddrive
failure and what was your results?

I just can not justify spending $99 for a restore cd, when the server does
not even have a cd player.
Plus duplicating the hard drive method would contain all my files and system
changes.
Thanks for any help you can provide

DH