[CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

[Tom Bishop]

Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is
not in use and mount both drives and do a:

mkdir /mnt/org
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org
mkdir /mnt/bckup
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup

cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/.

umount both drives

then copy mbr

dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1


I recalled this from memory but I don''t think I left anything out, but your
mileage may very, at this point you could replace your orginal with your
backup and it should boot just fine.
I use this method to copy/resize new virtual images and works quite good and
fast.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact
> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare.  That way if
> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare
> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the
> entire OS and all the little tweaks of setup on this mail/web server.
>
> How do I do this?  That is make an exact bootable copy of a linux
> drive.  Its running Centos 4.6 if that matters.
>
> Matt
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