cp [was: Re: ** Emegancy Request **]
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:19:52AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: There's always cp -a. I've heard several times that cp is not very good at copying files when it comes to copying something more than plain files. Some people suggest using cpio. I used cp -a succesfully several times when copying whole partitions. Does anyone know any problems when using cp in such situations? regards Marcin -- ++ The reason we come up with new versions |Marcin Owsiany | is not to fix bugs. It's the stupidest |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| reason to buy a new version ++ I ever heard.- Bill Gates
** Emegancy Request **
Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact online or offline mirroring ? (eg. do you want to make an emergency backup of a blown disk, ot do you want raid mirroring ?) -- [-] ``And there are plenty of other innovative pieces of software such as Napster and ICQ.'' -- comment on ``Systems Software Research is Irrelevant'' at http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/08/05/965534399.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact The absolute easiest and safest way that I know of would be to use DriveImage, by PowerQuest. Not ideologically correct, though. ;-) There's always cp -a. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, If you need to mirror a disk in the same machine, you can try dd comand, this will really make an exact copy of your disk the command should be something like : dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb -- Youri Albinovanus System Administrator Tiscali Belgium 29-31 Ch. d'Ixelles 1050 BRUXELLES BELGIUM Tel. : +32 2 4000888 Fax. : +32 2 4000899
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Youri Albinovanus wrote: Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, If you need to mirror a disk in the same machine, you can try dd comand, this will really make an exact copy of your disk the command should be something like : dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This is a good solution if the drive you're mirroring to is *exactly the same* as the disk you're mirroring from. If the physical geometry of each drive does not match identically (one is a 2g quantum and the other a 4g IBM, for instance) and you mirror the smaller drive on the larger drive /w dd, the larger drive will show as a 2g unit. If you don't have same size disks, use tar, as root: tar cvf - / | ssh -l root remote host tar xvf - (assuming you're going from one machine to another) If you're mirroring to a local disk, you can generate the appropriate command line to untar the filestream on the other disk. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.. -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Symantec Norton Ghost mekaes bit-by-bit copy and can even resize partition Attila -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** Emegancy Request **
Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact online or offline mirroring ? (eg. do you want to make an emergency backup of a blown disk, ot do you want raid mirroring ?) -- [-] ``And there are plenty of other innovative pieces of software such as Napster and ICQ.'' -- comment on ``Systems Software Research is Irrelevant'' at http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/08/05/965534399.html
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact The absolute easiest and safest way that I know of would be to use DriveImage, by PowerQuest. Not ideologically correct, though. ;-) There's always cp -a.
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, If you need to mirror a disk in the same machine, you can try dd comand, this will really make an exact copy of your disk the command should be something like : dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb -- Youri Albinovanus System Administrator Tiscali Belgium 29-31 Ch. d'Ixelles 1050 BRUXELLES BELGIUM Tel. : +32 2 4000888 Fax. : +32 2 4000899
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Youri Albinovanus wrote: Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Thanks in Advance Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, If you need to mirror a disk in the same machine, you can try dd comand, this will really make an exact copy of your disk the command should be something like : dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This is a good solution if the drive you're mirroring to is *exactly the same* as the disk you're mirroring from. If the physical geometry of each drive does not match identically (one is a 2g quantum and the other a 4g IBM, for instance) and you mirror the smaller drive on the larger drive /w dd, the larger drive will show as a 2g unit. If you don't have same size disks, use tar, as root: tar cvf - / | ssh -l root remote host tar xvf - (assuming you're going from one machine to another) If you're mirroring to a local disk, you can generate the appropriate command line to untar the filestream on the other disk. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Symantec Norton Ghost mekaes bit-by-bit copy and can even resize partition Attila
