Re: Backup and restore onto different hard drive

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Gear
Matthew Hannigan wrote: I'd use the -a option to cp rather than dd. dd preservies/copies far more than you want or need, and requires you to resize afterwards. So.. cd source cp -a . destination I have to say i agree with the other guys - cp is not the best option for filesystem

Re: Backup and restore onto different hard drive

2009-11-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
I'd use the -a option to cp rather than dd. dd preservies/copies far more than you want or need, and requires you to resize afterwards. So.. cd source cp -a . destination Are you ok with the grub stuff? On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:06:44AM +1100, Ryan Ralph wrote: Hi everyone, Was