I'd use ``dump'' for tasks of this sort.
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:26 -0500, 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 > -- [email protected] mailing list
