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From: | Yury Umanets |
Subject: | Re: Duplicating my hard drive? |
Date: | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 04:50:09 +0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030917 |
Andreas Steffen wrote:
Yury Umanets wrote:Hello, Why you don't want to use dd?My worry with dd is that it
a) takes really long (the hard drive I was taking about is about 4% full, so a smarter tool might be better),
b) I am not familiar with exactly how dd affects block devices and
c) if there's a small error among the billions of bytes, it might all go to hell. Of course, a) is survivable, b) could be cured (RTFM, ne?) and c) is a question of experience... which is why I'm posting here.
If you worry about bad blocks, than dd_rescue is better tool for making backup/clone, etc.
Okay, what about just copy all files and directories by cp command? :)
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