On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Manager wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> suppose I have a linux root partition /dev/hda1 on which I run dd to
> capture the whole image of the partition to a file say.. backup.dd. now in
> case of a crashed /dev/hda1 ..will I be able to restore each byte of it
> including System/boot/data blocks by giving command dd if=./backup.dd
> of=./dev/hda1.....
Yes.. it will... provided the disks and partitions have the same
geometry...
However, the boot part of it won't be backed up, So U will have to re-run
lilo to get it to boot from the HD
> ONe more question.....
>
> How do I do disk mirroring in Linux ?
Look into the RAID related howtos and also the md driver in 2.2.x
-Naren
