[buug] dd to clone

[Bruce Ferrell]

I'd have to look up the switches to tell you how to make it correctly 
handle hard and sym links

Anton Stroganov wrote:
> Does tar handle symlinks and hardlinks through?
> 
> On 3/7/07, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org 
> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> wrote:
> 
>     use tar.  it'll give you an accurate copy independant of the underlying
>     hardware.  something like this:
> 
>     tar cvf - <hda root> | (cd <hdb root> ; tar xvf -)
> 
> 
> 
>     John de la Garza wrote:
>      > I have a linux box that is up and running in a production
>     environment.
>      > I want to reproduce the box for a backup server.  If I want to
>     use dd
>      > to copy the harddrive could I simply do something like:
>      >
>      > dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024k  of=/dev/hdb
>      >
>      > or must I know more about the hard drives and do some
>     calculations for
>      > how much data to copy?
>      >
>      > hdb is greater than or equal to the size of hda in this case
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