Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive

[Bug Hunter]

> > larger one and restore the image to the new drive.
> > Another program from them called Drive Copy does a similar thing but you
> > have both the old and the new drive installed and copy from the old to
> > the
> > new one.
> 
> I'am sure there is an open source solution. Anybody could got a simple way
> to proceed ?
> (like cat /dev/hda1 >> /dev/hdb1)
> 


  Assuming you have partitioned the new drive with an identical partition,
several possibilities come to mind.  Assuming hdb1 and a directory named
copy:

mount /dev/hdb1 /copy
copy -p -x / /copy

  you can also use:

rsync  (from the creator of samba)

cpio   (very old standby, arcane, but works)

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