On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:51, Joon wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:07, Ahmad S. Taneo wrote:
> > mkCDrec can do that.. exact replication of the entire hard drive.
> 
> Thanks... but I was hoping I could do my replication straight from
> shell.  I checked the rsync manpage, but couldn't see anything regarding
> exact (low level?) hdd copy.  Maybe I should I use dd instead?

dd is what I use here...although i've only used it on 2 identical disks
(same model/make/size). it's as simple as "dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc". 
took me 1 hour and a half to clone a 20Gb Maxtor IDE disk.

/myu

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