On 19 Mar 1999, anoah wrote:
> are you familiar with the program \'dd\'?
>
> i use dd to copy the raw partitions ie /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 on a couple older
> boxes.
I do this on our most important servers also, but you want to keep in mind
that you're (a) copying open filesystems and (b) copying filesystems that
may change significantly during the copy.
I've partially solved this by running a forced fsck on the backup
filesystems after the copy.
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