I just bought a new drive and I need to mirror an old HDD to it. There is no OS on the HDD so something that can do a quick disc mirror of all the data would be good. I would prefer something free as its going to be a one shot thing.
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boot off a linux liveCD , mount both partitions and rsync -avz /mnt/hd1/ /mnt/hd2/
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Suits me I have Knoppix that should do?Comment
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yup should be fine, as long as you:
make absolutely sure you mirror from full hard disk to empty (not the other way around for gods sake!) and also make sure to mount both (this means you have to find the device name for both (probably /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 etc), so just make sure you know exactly which is which!
and when its done, unmount them both (although it should do this on reboot really).Last edited by kernow; 07-12-2010, 21:08.Comment
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