At 12:23 PM 6/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >dd will do this just fine, just keep in mind the target needs to be as big >as (or bigger ) than the source. As we're copying everything, regardless >of if there's actually data or not. > >Oh, one other thing...boot off a third drive. you don't want open files on >the drive you're copying from!
Yes, this is what I was afraid of. It sounds like there is no way to safely mirror one drive to another without properly shutting down the source filesystem. So if I had the source drive copy itself, it's sort of the functional equivalent of a reboot after cutting power if I boot from the target drive, huh? I realize if I do it this way it's a total hack but if I shut down some services, would I be able to say with confidence that the mirror would boot or would the result be too iffy? This is on a production machine and I don't have the time/resources to do the proper thing, ie install a RAID controller. Peter Beardsley Appropriate Solutions, Inc. pbeardsley[AT]appropriatesolutions.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
