Hi, So, you have a internal SATA disk, and you want to make a backup that you can use in case it breaks? First of all, on the hardware, the simplest would be to buy a SATA disk just like your internal one. Pay attention: there are thicker ones and thinner ones, and some laptops only fit the thinner one. To be on the safe side buy a thin one. Then buy a external HDD enclosure and put the new disk in that. This allows you to connect it with USB. Like these: http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/09/enermax-puts-jazz-into-external-hdd-enclosures/ This way it's easy to remove the disk from the enclosure and put it in your laptop if the original disk breaks. (You could maybe also boot straight off the USB disk, but then you would have to change BIOS settings and maybe also reconfigure grub, and it sounds like you want a easy solution). The easiest and safest way (that I know of) to clone the disk is to download "gparted live". you can put it on a CD or USB stick and boot from it, boot your laptop from it, and very easily copy your whole laptop disk to the USB drive. You can either do that "once in a while" to refresh the backup, or, you can connect the USB disk to your laptop and use a tool like rsync to update the backup. There are also many backup solutions for linux that might make all this much easier, but I don't have much experience with them. If your backup disk is bigger than the source, you can even make another partition on the remaining free space and use that for general storage. I hope this helps, urgrue On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:56 +0100, "Sreekumar Padiyath" <kumar.padiyath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for the reply. > > I see the following HW on the web pages when I just look with Google. > > http://www.cooldrives.com/ep.yimg.com/ca/I/cooldrives_2074_8107155.jpg > > http://www.byterunner.com/byterunner/category=USB+2.0+to+IDE+Adapters,+USB+2.0+to+IDE+Cables > > http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adaptv2.php > > Can I use similar types of adapter to clone the disc? Any suggestion is > appreciated > > Kumar > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > > From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:55:31 -0500 > > Subject: Re: HW to clone a sata disk > > I don't think that what you're trying to do will work, as you may have > > occasions where your USB connected drive may not be > > available...additionally, you would have needed to set up the RAID mirror at > > install time. > > > > Might I suggest MondoRescue and that USB drive? You can use the USB drive > > as a target onto which Mondo can place it's backups, and then, in the event > > of a hard disk failure in the laptop, you can burn the requisite discs from > > which to boot and recover your setup. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Sreekumar Padiyath <kumar.padiyath@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > >> In my laptop(Siemens Lifebook S7020) I have a SATA disk with Linux > >> installation. I want to make clone disc( mirroring) from the SATA disc > >> as a reserve. If some HW (Disc) problem arises then I want to use the > >> cloned disc . I would like to know which HW adapter I can use to clone > >> the disc? I want to use my USB port for the Adapter connection. Which > >> adapter mark is available in Europe? What will be the approximate > >> price? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Kumar > >> > >> -- > >> redhat-list mailing list > >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > >> > > > > > > > > __ > > redhat-list mailing list > > Unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
