On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 18:55 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip
can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it
leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and
handles hard-links efficiently.
I'm
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In reality, being raised on real UNIX(TM) systems from long ago and far
away, it was just one of the things we wanted left unchanged when we did
backups or shipped tapes to the outside world (one of my many jobs back
then). There is the
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and all the
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
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no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually
recommend
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
snip
no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
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Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you
want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the
above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
snip
Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you
want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the
above dump/restore set I've seen many
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of local copy,
usually back-up related. I can't recall if the cp -a detects and
handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio
Yes, it seems that cp -a is designed just
Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (17.11.2008 18:42):
mkdir /mnt/org
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
mkdir /mnt/bckup
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
Won't this command choke if there are too many files? I think I have
run into that before.
If it does, here's a
Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is
not in use and mount both drives and do a:
mkdir /mnt/org
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
mkdir /mnt/bckup
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
Won't this command choke if there are too many files? I
Robert wrote:
Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and all the
Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch
I
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stupid question ... why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
cuz it's not an md volume to begin with?
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Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
Bent Terp wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stupid question ... why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1
mirror
cuz it's not an md volume to begin with?
one method is to make the 2nd disk a 'half' mirror, with all the
Matt wrote:
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if
something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
entire OS and
Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is
not in use and mount both drives and do a:
mkdir /mnt/org
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
mkdir /mnt/bckup
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup
cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.
umount both drives
then copy mbr
dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx
brute force approach...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384
That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before
you boot if you use lvm right?
Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy
actual data which should be quick in your case?
jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
brute force approach...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384
That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before
you boot if you use lvm right?
Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy
actual data which should be
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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
brute force approach...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev
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