[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:46:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>I'm currently doing this as I type.
>   
>  I had a 250gig start to go bad.
>   
>  I just booted up a knoppix type disk in my case Knoppix-STD but you can use DSL or whatever.  I've heard that the SUSE boot/rescue disk works well too.
>   
>  Once I got a command prompt I typed 
>   
>  dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdg
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>  where if=old disk and of=new disk
>   
>  It's been running all night copying all 250gigs.  Was still running when I went to work this morning.
>   
>  Good luck!

The only problem with <dd> is that since it is copying every sector,
whether used or blank, it takes quite a while (i.e., hours). I back up
my HDD every other day, which could get tedious with <dd>.

So I use Symantec Ghost 8.2 (for DOS) co-residing on a floppy boot
disk with PC-DOS. It takes about 14 minutes to back up 30Gb of data.
It copies ext2, ext3, fat32, ntfs and more.

Symantec doesn't advertise Ghost for DOS, preferring to sell the
bloatware version. I recently found an independent Web page devoted to
Ghost:  http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/norton_ghost.shtml

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
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