On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I a newbie in Linux. I always trash my system when I am tinkering my system
> & always have to start the system configuration from scratch and not from
> the point of failure.
Don't ever ever login as root. Too dangerous.
Tinker around as a user, su only when necessary. Most (99.9%) tasks
don't need root privileges. Those that do, you should su.
And, of course, merely tinkering with one application at a time helps a
lot.
> I would like to add a second HDD with a copy of Linux on it. I
> would like to have a script that would make a copy a given disk to
> the other, and I mean system configurations & all.
Heres some pointers for writing the script:
man dd
man cp
man cpio
look up the docs on raid as well.
Choose your tool(s)
> Request pointers to How-Tos & other resources in addition to your comments
> on how to go about it & pitfalls, if any.
www.linuxdocs.org
> Also, how to adapt this idea to mirroring to another server on the network
> & restoring from it?
cpio should help here, plus a little ftp?
or take a look at piranha (with Redhat) and http://www.linux-ha.org
Devdas Bhagat
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