Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?

[sandy pond]

Hi David,

You already have a problem if you use more than 9GB
on the 10GB disk.  I would partition the 10GB disk into
a system software partition that doesn't need to be backed
up nightly (backup this partition image once on a spare 
disk an store away).  Then on the partition that is 9GB
or less do;

parted /dev/hdb cp /dev/hda FROM-NUM TO-NUM

nightly where FROM-NUM is the partition number to 
copy and TO-NUM is the partition made ealier to hold 
image.

Also see below for more comments;

Keith

> 
> Hey Keith,
> 
> Hmmm.. ok.  What I'm trying to do is "dd" a 10GB
> disk to a 9gb disk mightly as a form of a warm
> spare (has benefits over RAID1).
> 
> So I guess I'm stuck with a nightly:
> 
>          fdisk (make the resized partitions on the
>                  smaller disk)

Don't need to do above every night (actually shouldn't?)

>          mke2fs (those new partitions)
>          tar    (copy over the files.. SLOW...)

This might be faster;

(cd DIR; find . -depth -mount -print | cpio -pdlmu DEST)

where DIR is the top of the partition you want to backup
and DEST is the newly formated and mounted filesystem
for the backup. 

>          mkswap (create swap)

Why mkswap?  Purpose?

>          dd boot (make the new disk bootable)

Probably won't work.  Purpose?

> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> --David
> 
> 
>  >Only works for FAT filesystems though (I assumed FAT
>  >because you mentioned Norton Ghost).  See Andrew
>  >Clausen's post concerning ext2.  This is documented.
>  >
>  >I use parted to backup partitions all the time (even on
>  >computers without Linux installed by using the boot
>  >disk).  Saves a lot of trouble if someone hoses a
>  >partition.  You can even backup the partition on the
>  >same disk and then hide the partition from users.
>  >
>  >Keith
>  >
>  >> Hello Keith,
>  >>
>  >> Wow.. this is NOT conveyed in the docs!  You should
>  >> really get that updated.
>  >>
>  >> Anyway, is there a way to do this from a command
>  >> line (not interactive)?  What I need to do
>  >> is do this command once a night as a offline
>  >> backup from a 10GB disks to a 9GB disk.
>  >>
>  >> --David
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  >This is exactly how it works!
>  >>  >
>  >>  >see http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER
>  >>  >
>  >>  >make new partition (big enough to hold the files on original);
>  >>  >
>  >>  >(parted) select DEVICE
>  >>  >(parted) print
>  >>  >(parted) mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END
>  >>  >
>  >>  >copy original partition to new partition.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >(parted) cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR
>  >>  >
>  >>  >copies and resizes at once.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >Keith


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