[plug] Backup of a disk

[Scott, Simon]

Whats the easiest way to retain the /dev entries? I was thinking about this
last night, about how funny it would be to tar /dev, and the problems that
would occur when you hit /dev/zero or /dev/random :) Is there anyway to
'backup' the special device files?

Also, is it true 2.4 will do away with /dev, which will be replaced by a
filesystem like /proc which will be maintained by the kernel depending on
what devices you have?


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>  Simon Scott
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4.31 How many times can you re-use CD-RW before they become faulty? 
Good question. 
(Linux CD-Writing HOWTO,
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.31)




-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Campbell [mailto:brad at seme.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 14 April 2000 8:27
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Backup of a disk


Phillip Steege wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to backup a complete disk to another one?
> Is "dd" the proper way?
> 
> Phil Steege

I mount the new disk on /mnt
and do 
cd /mnt
tar --exclude=/proc --exclude=/mnt -cp / | tar -xpv
That duplicates the entire directory structure..
Of course, this is no good if you do the 'Right Thing'
and cut the drive up into multiple partitions..


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