[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 21:39 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> How is it easier ? dump | restore is as straightfoward as it gets.
> I have been using it for 15+ years, and never had a problem (except
> for raiserfs filesystems, of course).

Rodrigo is correct.  UNIX filesystem "dumps" do what Ghost, Drive
Copy/Image, etc... do for NT filesystems.  Microsoft does _not_ offer an
equivalent, let alone the nasty SAM-SID non-sense, hence their
existence.

Otherwise, I also use the archive/unarchive method either via 'find|cpio
-p' or 'tar c|tar x'.  That will work with ReiserFS too, let alone just
about any UNIX flavor

> Yes, if I were going to produce a lot of copies of the same disk, then
> I would look for something like Ghost (or G4U, will check it later
> tonight). But for this particular task ?

There are broadcast/multicast tools for UNIX as well.


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