Quoting Federico A. Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i'm backing up my precious server into another hdd, and im wondering what > are the steps to make that backup hdd the exact copy of my server (not > including the /home directory). the server is in an 80GB hdd, / partition > is 20GB, 600MB is used; 60GB is alloted to /home). the backup hdd is 10GB. > > i'm a dd user but as far as i know is that i need to have identical drives > to make a sucessful replica (done dd a few months back). i've also tried > dump + restore but some files are not included/missing (ie apache). > > any ideas how?
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