making a exact copy of a HD

[James Nelson]

Yep, its possible.

assuming drives are exactly the same:
dd if=sda of=sdb

Or alternatively you can image by partion.  Also you can combine with tar
and compress for friendly storage of your img if sent to a file as opposed
to a drive.

Better still, dd is already installed on your system.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Advance Warning" <advancewarning at swbell.net>
To: "KCLUG" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD

> Good luck at trying to do that I don't think it is possible
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale" <dale_n_ks at yahoo.com>
> To: "kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD
>
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> > Okay. what I am after is an EXACT copy of a HD.
> > ghost makes a copy but it isn't exact apperantly cause
> > it didnt' copy over some of the information on the
> > original drive.. such as a software ID for the system.
> >
> > anyway, what I wanted to do is get a perfect dup of
> > the HD which only has 1 partition. to another hd
> > I use a HD with no partitions defined. for the
> > destination.
> >
> > ghost as I said will copy the drive to the point that
> > I can run it.. but it dont' duplicate the software ID.
> > And since ghost is a PCDOS program I know that there
> > has to be something really simular in the lin
> > community.  I usually use dd to dump a image to a
> > disk. But that didnt' give me the results I wanted
> > either.
> >
> >
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