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Hi, |
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A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard |
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drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can |
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replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. |
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Since I go to weird locations with unreliable power and sometimes drop |
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my laptop I thought it should be simple to do the same in Linux. I have |
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an external disk the same size, but now what? |
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* I want to copy changes intelligently (ie. no dd, gparted, or |
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Ghost4Linux). |
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* I want to copy a specific device only (no usb keys, etc) to a |
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specific external device. |
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* Windows partitions can be ignored. |
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* It doesn't matter if the copy is not unmounted properly, eg. if |
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power is shut of without shutting down. |
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* The external disk must be able to be absent |
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Can md use one internal and one external disk in a RAID 1 setup, with |
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the external disk not always there? Any other suggestions? |
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thanks :) |
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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Better tried by twelve than carried by six. |
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-- Jeff Cooper |
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