[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Jason]

yeah, I'll be getting a replacement drive which would be at least the 
same size as the drive it is replacing (60gb).

Thanks for all your advice and comments guys, I appreciate it.

jason.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> W.Kenworthy wrote:
> >Unless you are really sure that the new machine/HD is identical to your
> >old one, .tar.bz2 via a network pipe to another machine will be a better
> 
> He is just getting a new HDD, not a whole laptop.
> If the replacement disk is bigger, you can resize the partition after 
> restoring it.
>  Tar will break the boot manager, at least.
>  I don't think it matters if the drive geometry is different these 
> days, does it?
> 
> BTW, as of the current version, the Ubuntu install CD is also a live 
> boot CD, like knoppix, and would do the job.
> 
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