[plug] "dd" question

[James Elliott]

You can do it very easily with Norton Ghost
James Elliott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steege, Phil E" <phil.e.steege at lmco.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:00 AM
Subject: [plug] "dd" question


> I want to "clone" my hard drive to a spare hard drive, of equal size.
> This was cheaper than going out and paying for a tape drive that could
> handle 40GB disks.
>
> The dd command man page says there are different block sizes.  Which block
> size (bs) quantity is right for Linux.
> I was going to use the following command " dd if=/dev/had of=/dev/hdb
bs=512
> ".
> Would that be correct ?
>
> I thought about RAID (software raid) using a mirror (raid 1)
configuration,
> but I have no experience with RAID.
> I figured I would just run a nightly cron job with the dd command.
>
> Phil
>
>