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george n

2 Nov 2001 2 Nov '01

13:06

Hello, is there any way to make a second hard-disk up and runing as the first one containing suse ope.system with lilo on MBR, and make my this new disk ready to "play" like a good backup!! Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

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Pascal Miquet

2 Nov 2 Nov

14:01

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Personaly, when I want to make a disk dump I use the dd command like : "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" And that's it. One precision both disks are the same (Size). All partitions are made, and all is done. You do not need to mount the second disk to make the dump. What you should do is an fsck on the dump, otherwise, when youll boot up on it the checks will be made. HTH Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "george n" To: Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: [SLE] Hard Disk Copy

Hello, is there any way to make a second hard-disk up and runing as the first one containing suse ope.system with lilo on MBR, and make my this new disk ready to "play" like a good backup!! Thanks!

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Jon Pennington

19:53

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--- george n wrote:

is there any way to make a second hard-disk up and runing as the first one containing suse ope.system

There are many ways to do this. In it's simplest proceedure, if the disks are identical (same c/h/s::capacity), you could simply start with a boot disk that has dd on it, dd hd[a] to hd[c], reboot on hd[a], and use flags to run lilo onto hd[c] instead of hd[a]. It's really simple if you whip out some man pages. If the disks are not identical, you could use tar to do the same thing (again, the source filesystem should be unmounted), run lilo, and go. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

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Trey Gruel

20:29

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--- george n wrote:

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is there any way to make a second hard-disk up and runing as the first one containing suse ope.system

There are many ways to do this. In it's simplest proceedure, if the disks are identical (same c/h/s::capacity), you could simply start with a boot disk that has dd on it, dd hd[a] to hd[c], reboot on hd[a], and use flags to run lilo onto hd[c] instead of hd[a]. It's really simple if you whip out some man pages. If the disks are not identical, you could use tar to do the same thing (again, the source filesystem should be unmounted), run lilo, and go.

how would tar be able to do it if the source fs isn't mounted? i can understand dd, but doesn't tar need to look at the fs? --trey

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Jon Pennington

21:45

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--- Trey Gruel wrote:

how would tar be able to do it if the source fs isn't mounted? i can understand dd, but doesn't tar need to look at the fs?

Sorry; boil that down to user error. :) Um, what I meant to say is that the filesystem should be mounted, but should not be live; there are lots of problems with using tar *or* dd on a live file system (the one that you've booted to and/or have locked files on). Start with a simple bootdisk like Tom's RtBt or the LinuxCare BBC, mount the filesystems temporarily in some place like /mnt/hda and /mnt/hdc or something like that. Do your tar, run lilo, and it'd be done right. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

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