Hi,
A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
Since I go to weird locations with unreliable power and sometimes drop
my laptop I thought it should be simple to do the same in Linux. I have
an external disk the same size, but now what?
* I want to copy changes intelligently (ie. no dd, gparted, or
Ghost4Linux).
* I want to copy a specific device only (no usb keys, etc) to a
specific external device.
* Windows partitions can be ignored.
* It doesn't matter if the copy is not unmounted properly, eg. if
power is shut of without shutting down.
* The external disk must be able to be absent
Can md use one internal and one external disk in a RAID 1 setup, with
the external disk not always there? Any other suggestions?
thanks :)
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-- Jeff Cooper
