On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> :~>Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS
>
> yes.
>
> :~>,my friend tech me
> :~>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode.
> :~>anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks
>
> So your frien tech (what does that mean?) you "dd", and you are not
> happy? dd can do just about anything whene it comes to copiing, so if you
> really want to mirror HD, dd is the way to go.
I just finished using a simple
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
from an su'd konsole and it worked great. I then moved the hda cable to hdc
(left hda unplugged) and rebooted. It did run fsck, maybe I needed to unmount
hdc, but basically I booted off the backup and had a working system without a
hitch, very cool.
I then upgraded to 7.1, so far the only bug is no menu editor but I think there
were some recent posts that should fix that. Once everything is set I'll plug
the old hda (now my backup disk) back in and either setup a RAID1 or something
in cron for dd.
