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?
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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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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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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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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Could also check out Clonezilla if the other options don't work for you.
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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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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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