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["Albert" <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Arun.

If I remember correctly this will mirror <current device> to <backup
device>. Is there a way I can only copy a directory from <current device> to
<backup device>?

Albert

-----Original Message-----
From: Arun K. Khan [mailto:knura@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:02
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Copying files

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:10 +0200, Albert wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a way of copying this image set to another hard disk or
> DVD that will not take forever to do? If possible with a progress bar –
> indicating how much files there are and how much files still need to be
> copied.

dd if=/dev/<current device>  of=/dev/<backup device>

make sure <backup device> is >= <current device>

Look at dd_rescue (ddrescue RPM) if you encounter bad blocks on your
HDD.

-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) 
Jone's Motto: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.


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