On 09-12-01 13:01:47, Dan Thurman wrote: > > Which is the preferred "backup" solution? ... > I am trying to get data off of disk1 which is failing (via smartd) > and wish to use the correct backup and restore method getting the > data off of disk1 onto disk2 without "integrity loss", whatever that > means. You don't seem to be doing a backup, but rather making a copy of an existing drive. You should probably do that and then also make a backup some other way. To copy a disk, I always use dd and then expand the last partition as needed (it's usually LVM2, so I then expand some of the LVs). The disk I usually do this to has WinXP (and Win98) as well as Linux /boot and LVM2 partitions. > In the case of dd, it falls flat, if there are sector errors and this > would not work, as in my case - so backup programs that do byte copy > would perhaps also fail. ... ddrescue -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
