[buug] dd to clone

[Bruce Ferrell]

true, no mbr.  got something different:

http://air-imager.sourceforge.net/

Just saw it today

John de la Garza wrote:
> This wont copy the MBR or the partition table.  I am looking for a  way 
> to clone a harddrive, not just a directory.
> 
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Ferrell 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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