Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[mike@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Smith)]

I have always been curious as to whether dd would work

ie

Unmount the drive 

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/backupofhardrive

and then to restore on new drive

dd if=/backupofhardrive of=/dev/hda1

Aint had the guts tho :)

Mike


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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, zentara wrote:

> tabanna wrote:
> > 
> >  "Christopher D. Reimer" <creimer@xxxxxxxxx> mused :
> > > Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a
> > > new hard drive?
> > 
> >         ~ what's wrong with "tar.gz" zipping stuff, directory by directory.
> > .. . . then, partition the new drive.
> > Unzip the tar.gz directory, when one wants
> > Finally, adjust the Mount Points in /etc/fstab     ?
> 
> I tried that once, I found that the tar program would hang on core and
> /proc files
> unless you exclude them, unless the /root system wasn't mounted when you
> copied it.
> Maybe I didn't call tar properly?
> 
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