Richard (Rogers @ work) wrote: > Good morning, > > I am trying to backup the entire hard disk image of my asterisk onto > another drive. > would anyone recommend the best and easiest way to do that?
Aside from the fact that you'd be backing up a live system and would need to run an fsck immediately on the newly mirrored drive, you can always do a "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdc". This copies a complete image (all partitions, boot loader, swap, and all) from the primary drive on the first IDE controller to the primary drive on the secondary IDE controller. Just make sure that /dev/hdc is equal or larger than the primary hard drive. This also works if you boot from Knoppix, which allows you to do the complete image without the live system. Cheers, Sean.
