Re: [BackupPC-users] backup entire disk

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:20, mna.news wrote:
> >
> > Can I use backuppc for cloning a drive, i.e have an exact copy ?
> > Someone have test this ?

> i guess backuppc is done to do a "logical files backup" not a physical dump.
> 
> to clone hdd you can use partimage ( www.partimage.org) or lrs distribution 
> (commercial http://www.linbox.com/ucome.rvt/any/en/Produits/LRS ) those 2 
> soft really dump the hdd.
> maybe 'dd' can do this also ;o)

dd doesn't care what it copies, but you need to make sure nothing
changes during the process. Booting from a live CD (knoppix or in
rescue mode from the first disk of fedora/RH) is the brute force
way to do it.  If you copy the raw disk you get partitions and
everything.  You just have to be careful not to boot with an
original and clone in the same machine unless you fix the labels
and/or LVM id's to be unique.

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  Les Mikesell
    le...@fu...