Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard disk sizing ideas

[C L. M. <clm...@gm...>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:52:16 -0600, Rich Duzenbury
<rdu...@th...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:47 -0500, Chuck Witt wrote:
> > Here's the question. How do I transfer the data to a new drive? (command
> > used was cp -rv /backup/* /backup-new and the data would not fit on new
> > drive). 
> I initially moved my data around with cp -a, but it took nine hours to
> move 40Gb on P4 2.3Ghz.
> 
> I've been using ddrescue to sector copy an 80Gb partition around.  Takes
> about 90 minutes to move from hdc to a removable 80Gb sda.

I'd like to try dd_rescue for the issue I asked about yesterday. Would
a simple "dd_rescue -p /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdd1" copy the data over? What
issues would arise if /dev/hdd1 is bigger than /dev/hdb1?

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C Lance Moxley
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