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    Copies the entire drive content to another hard drive.. similar to like what a raid1 would do then I can boot from other drive?

    or should I just raid1 so I can switch main drives?
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    What exactly are you trying to do? Just copy the disk contents to another disk? Or are you trying to have a persistent backup? (raid 1)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silent SPY View Post
    What exactly are you trying to do? Just copy the disk contents to another disk? Or are you trying to have a persistent backup? (raid 1)
    well the 1 I want to copy is the main drive, boot etc

    so I want to make an identical copy of it down to the boot record so I can use the other drive for boot & take out the one that is currently the main drive


    so I really want to do identical to what raid1 does but if there's just like some software that does it
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    mmmk. Well since your are on linux you should check out PING. I think it will do what you need.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silent SPY View Post
    mmmk. Well since your are on linux you should check out PING. I think it will do what you need.
    awesome thanks! looks like that'll work
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    Eh. The command 'dd' can do block copies. It can copy an entire harddisk, or just a partition. To and from hard disks, devices, etc.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizzup? View Post
    Eh. The command 'dd' can do block copies. It can copy an entire harddisk, or just a partition. To and from hard disks, devices, etc.
    if I did that would the copy be bootable?

    this is more of what I was looking for because linux always has these kind of neat tools
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    You could probably set it as bootable from the disk manager. It's been a while since I've used linux though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silent SPY View Post
    You could probably set it as bootable from the disk manager. It's been a while since I've used linux though.
    I'll mess with all the stuff in this thread

    if I can't get it I can just install the OS on the new drive then copy what I need to etc
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    Could also check out Clonezilla if the other options don't work for you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silent SPY View Post
    Could also check out Clonezilla if the other options don't work for you.
    yea that one looks like that's exactly what it does

    I'll see what wizzup says about the 'dd' command

    but my drive should come sometime (the new one I'm using) so then I'll be able to test all of these
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    You can use dd to do the entire block, but know.. there is NO going back if you mess it up. It will do what you ened, but there are NO fail safes.

    Theoretically, it should copy the flags over, but you can also just set them manually using fdisk.
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    RedoBackup is prettier-->easier-->safer IMO

    E: though it might not have a disk to disk clone mode, so you would have to create an image of A to store on C, and then restore the image stored on C to B, that's if you want to have 2 bootable disks at the same time. Though I don't know why you would, because I would just store an image of A on B, and then when A is screwed up grab whatever files have been created since the image, store those on B alongside the image, restore the image to A (overwriting it), boot into A, grab the files from B, and then make a new image of A on B.
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    yea I'm just going to slap fedora 15 on a drive then sync folders from the other drive to the correct spots and keep backups with sync

    then I'll keep 1 drive raid1'd with the main .. drive isn't here yet but I think that's the easiest at least I know it'll work & I don't have to worry about messing stuff up xD
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