On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:20, mna.news wrote: > > > > Can I use backuppc for cloning a drive, i.e have an exact copy ? > > Someone have test this ?
> i guess backuppc is done to do a "logical files backup" not a physical dump. > > to clone hdd you can use partimage ( www.partimage.org) or lrs distribution > (commercial http://www.linbox.com/ucome.rvt/any/en/Produits/LRS ) those 2 > soft really dump the hdd. > maybe 'dd' can do this also ;o) dd doesn't care what it copies, but you need to make sure nothing changes during the process. Booting from a live CD (knoppix or in rescue mode from the first disk of fedora/RH) is the brute force way to do it. If you copy the raw disk you get partitions and everything. You just have to be careful not to boot with an original and clone in the same machine unless you fix the labels and/or LVM id's to be unique. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
