Re: [expert] Copy HD to HD

[Dave Lers]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> :~>Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS
> 
> yes.
> 
> :~>,my friend tech me
> :~>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode.
> :~>anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks
> 
> So your frien tech (what does that mean?) you "dd", and you are not
> happy? dd can do just about anything whene it comes to copiing, so if you
> really want to mirror HD, dd is the way to go.

I just finished using a simple
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
from an su'd konsole and it worked great. I then moved the hda cable to hdc
(left hda unplugged) and rebooted. It did run fsck, maybe I needed to unmount
hdc, but basically I booted off the backup and had a working system without a
hitch, very cool.

I then upgraded to 7.1, so far the only bug is no menu editor but I think there
were some recent posts that should fix that. Once everything is set I'll plug
the old hda (now my backup disk) back in and either setup a RAID1 or something
in cron for dd.

Re: [expert] Copy HD to HD

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS

yes.

:~>,my friend tech me
:~>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode.
:~>anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks

So your frien tech (what does that mean?) you "dd", and you are not
happy? dd can do just about anything whene it comes to copiing, so if you
really want to mirror HD, dd is the way to go.

If you are scared of dd, and want to copy all data from one partition to
another using a cute user interface, I would recoment "mc".

cu
Denis 
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[expert] Copy HD to HD

[aman66 . bbs]

Dear All,
Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS
,my friend tech me
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode.
anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks
regards,

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