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Disk Cloning for Unix

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Name: Stephanie
Date: November 15, 1999 at 11:02:33 Pacific
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I need to find reliable (and cheep) software for cloning Unix Hard Drives. ASAP, please.



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Name: Michael Batchelor
Date: November 15, 1999 at 18:28:44 Pacific
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just use dd. "info dd" for help. Of course, the two will need to be identical. if you have different physical geometries use cpio piped into another cpio.


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Name: Tom Arthurs
Date: November 18, 1999 at 21:35:41 Pacific
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the unix command "dd" will do it, from a formatted disk to a formatted disk. run the dd man page for your flavor of unix, but it would be something like
#dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024

this will copy from device /dev/hda1 to device hdb1 1024 bytes at a time. You need to find out how your disks are laid out, and use the device that is linked to the entire disk.

dd is a raw file copy command (every thing is a file in unix, including the disk and disk partitions) that copies everything without any processing unless you specify processing (such as converting ibm format to ascii or some such).

e-mail me if you need more information.


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Response Number 3
Name: George Hine
Date: August 2, 2000 at 10:34:44 Pacific
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I am a novice with UNIX, but have a good understanding of DOS.

I have an SCO Unix 3.2 server I need to copy. I want to use a larger hard drive and copy both the OS and all existing software to it. I want to start with an unformatted drive.
I will put the larger hard drive in another computer and practice with some of the programs that will be copied.

I considered using Norton's Ghost, but it will not see UNIX and wants to do a sector by sector copy, using identical drives.... unacceptable.
Thanks


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Response Number 4
Name: Dan Smith
Date: August 22, 2000 at 07:46:14 Pacific
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Does anyone know if this is built in to Redhat Linux as well?


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Response Number 5
Name: Ron Kloiber
Date: November 16, 2000 at 13:39:40 Pacific
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I have a similar problem. I have network stations that use a compact flash instead of a hard disk. You install a dos formatted CF and set up the station to load & copy the OS from a net server. The problem is the server is miles away and over frame it takes about 4 hours to load the 96Meg flash. I need a way to clone with a laptop using a PCMCIA to CF adapter preferably with win95 or
boot the laptop with a unix boot diskette ( if such exists ) I don't know unix...
Ghost will see the dos CF card when I first boot but if I remove & reistall, it does not see it anymore.


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Response Number 6
Name: Thach Anh
Date: November 26, 2000 at 20:36:01 Pacific
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I have the same problem. but we have no two identical disk. How can I do cloning disk with two diference disk (the second disk larger than the first disk). Could i still use:
#dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024


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