4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
1:43 a.m.
Richard wrote:
OK, suppose you have a workstation and it has stuff
installed on its
drives. You don't have the original distribution media for the OS and
any installed applications and you don't have a spare system with the
same stuff installed.
What's the best way to make a backup of the entire hard drive so that
the essential software doesn't get lost?
The drives are SCSI.
dd if=/dev/sda0 of=/some/filesystem/with/enough/space
Seriously! Copies the entire thing, sector by sector, to a file.
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