[K12OSN] Backing up a server...best methods

Robert Arkiletian robark at telus.net
Thu Nov 18 03:40:11 UTC 2004


What about buying a removable ide drive bay ($40) and a 200GB ide drive 
(~$120). Make partitions on it of the size of your scsi drive 
partitions. Then use dd to copy it over. Then if the scsi drives get 
borked/crash just use Toms Root Boot (which has fdisk, dd, mke2fs, 
mkswap) to copy things back onto new scsi drives. After this you may 
have to use Knoppix to run grub/lilo to setup the master boot record.

Robert Arkiletian




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