yes, that dd statement will work, but you probably want to increase your block size (bs=?)
there's a sweet spot one has to find for all systems, but since you're only going to do it once you'll just have to guess. I find best luck starting at approx half the smallest amount of cache in the entire chain. Of course, I only really do it on scsi... On 7/31/07, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ? > > Thanks, > Mike > > PS: The customer is aware that RAID was probably a good idea here, but > he chose not to get it for a variety of reasons and here we are. :o) > > > -- > ************************************************************ > 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 > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
