On Tuesday 31 July 2007 11:17:32 pm Michael J McCafferty wrote: > All, > I have a customer who has a lot of time invested in configuring his > system and is ready to put it in to production. However, we are getting > some disk errors on occasion and it's tough to trust it for the long > haul. What is the hot ticket for putting the exact same thing on another > drive. It's easy to have another identical server sitting next to it at > the same time, or put an identical disk in the same system to copy stuff > over. > > I am sure I could spend the time to do dd and fdisk, etc, but dumb it > down and speed it up for me. :o) Hmm... can I put a second disk in the > system and do a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb and will that get the boot > sectors, etc ? Is it that simple ?
Backup MBR #dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=51 and I believe you need to run fdisk on /dev/hdb and w the changes - I do at anyrate.. C. > > > -- > ************************************************************ > Michael J. McCafferty > Principal, Security Engineer > M5 Hosting > http://www.m5hosting.com > > You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! > RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more > ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
