> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:16 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive > > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> brute force approach... > >> > >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 > > > > That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before > > you boot if you use lvm right? > > > > Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy > > actual data which should be quick in your case? > > Clonezilla will handle LVMs, but I'm not sure if it is happy with cloned > identifiers done disk<->disk in the same machine. It may drop back to > dd for that anyway. If you have space on the network to store the > image, let clonezilla copy to the network from the source box and clone > it to disk on a different one. Unless the contents are extremely > critical you probably don't need to clone back to a real disk anyway. > That part would only take a few extra minutes when you need it. > I did this the other day with clonezilla and it worked great! It only took 15-20 minutes. I put the new clone in a different box and now use rsynce to keep things current. If you wanted to keep the drives in the same box I'm sure theres a way, with linux there always is :) Anyone? Dan <snip>