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Nick Smith wrote: | im going to be putting a second harddrive in my server that i want to | back up to, i want a mirror image, so if anything happens i can just | switch the drive to the primary and im back up again. will 'dd' do this | for me? if so how does it handle in use files, like pid's and socks? i | know rdiff-backup has a problem with those so i wouldnt be able to use | that. also, what about a mirrored raid? is it possible to create one | without having to start from scratch and reinstall? like just add the | drive to mirror to and mirror it? what would be the best solution for my | situation? | | | -- | [email protected] mailing list | |
You did not say what your file systems were, but why not use dump If you are interested I have a script that dumps one file system to another. If you tell me the layout of your disk I can write a script that will do if for you and can be run from cron on a nightly basis.
Mike
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