Disk Image Backup

[Michael Schwartz]

But will this image copy?  I need the entire operating system, everything 
that will allow me to take the copy HD and just replace the working HD and 
not go through any kind of special booting procedures.

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark" <mroth at cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 20:23
Subject: Re: Disk Image Backup


> Michael Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> I have a legacy (RH 7.2) system and need to make an image copy of the 
>> hard drive.  If this machine goes down (hard drive gone) there is no way 
>> for me to rebuild the applications.  Can anyone out there help please?
>
> Um, buy a small hard drive (the newest big ones won't be recognized 
> properly by the older machine's bios), put it on IDE2, shut the apps down, 
> and copy all of that (*eigh*, except for /dev....)
>
> mark
>
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