disk clonning tool

[Nabin Limbu]

Hi,
Thanks for the support.

Before trying this, I would like to know few things more

1) do we have to make partition manually? 
if yes, does it require equal size of partition in both disk or only significant amount 
of space to accommodate the size ?
2) Will it write in MBR of another disk?
3) After mirroring, do we need to change anything to boot from the mirrored disk?

Regards
Nabin Limbu

On 2 Mar 2004 at 10:58, Will Mc Donald wrote:

Yep, dd, tar, dump. Depending on your needs.

I find dd useful when you have (potentially lots of) indentical disks and you can take the machine down to boot off CD (Redhat in rescue mode or Knoppix), then you can mirror disks exactly.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192

... where sda is your original disk and sdb is the one you want to mirror to. 

Will.

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Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: disk clonning tool


> Of course, there's always dd.
> 
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:
> 
> >  --- Nabin Limbu <nlimbu at healthnet.org.np> escribió: >
> > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the prompt reply.
> > > 
> > > It seems the tools that you have mentioned are for
> > > copying CDs. Do they work for scsi - scsi clonning
> > > also.
> > > 
> > > I want to duplicate my SCSI disk of my running
> > > server into anoter SCSI disk, so that I can have a
> > > backup copy.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ohps, sorry 
> > To create images from a disk you can use:
> > 
> > partimage: www.partimage.org
> > 
> > I cannot remeber the exactly name of another
> > one..Ithink it's called something like tar+gz...search
> > something like that on goolge :-)
> > But, partimage will allow you to copy scsi disks :)
> > 
> > Good Luck
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2 Mar 2004 at 10:33, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > >  --- Nabin Limbu <nlimbu at healthnet.org.np> escribió:
> > > >
> > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have an idea about disk clonning tools
> > > > (freeware).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > k3b, gtoaster, cdrecord, xcdroast...
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