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 ?
It's that simple, but I would do dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc so they
are both on different channels. If they are on the same IDE channel it
will be really slow and take a long time. It will already be slow
because of them being IDE drives.
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