On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:14:31AM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: > What products are out there that are an idiot-proof (i.e. safe from me) way > of backing up a whole drive and restoring to a new one in case of disk > failure?
Tar and lilo. Tar the whole thing up, stick it somewhere, when you want to restore, untar onto the disk and run lilo to remake the boot sector. Far more reliable than trusting you'll have identical geometry hard drives and using dd. > I'd even use something that runs on a second machine on the newtwork > (Linux or Windows). Tar onto an NFS partition? <grin> - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
