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Re: mirroring a drive
Part way there. Just went to linuxapps and they have a program listed
called partition image (www.partimage.org). There is a deb listed.
Basically it will make an image of a partition which you can use to
restore the partition if need be. Also lists a boot disk so you don't
need to re-install linux to restore the drive. Interesting.
Rod
rod wrote:
>
> Digging for info now. The general idea is to sort of set up a 'manual'
> raid system. I was thinking of installing another drive with the idea of
> making a mirror copy. I do regular backups of my home directory but
> there have been a lot of changes/upgrades to the system and I'd hate to
> have to do it all again in the event of a harddrive failure. I went
> through the man pages for dd and cpio but didn't gain much. Is there a
> linux program similar to ghost. A final question: if I install a second
> harddrive but don't set it up to mount will it spin-up or will it remain
> in standby mode. It would seem pointless to have two drives running if
> only one is being used. I guess this amounts to an on-my-command
> software raid solution.
>
> Rod
>
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