[Klug-general] hard drive image

[J D Freeman]

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:25:59PM +0100, Evan Ingram wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I want to take an image/make an exact copy etc (not sure on the correct
> terminology) of one hard drive onto another identical hard drive. 
> 
> Have a system set up and want to make changes but would like a copy of
> the last known good configuration to revert back to if things go pear
> shaped. Whats the simplest way of doing this? I've read about using dd,
> sounds like it could be a bit slow(?). 

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1M 

replace hda1 and hdb1 with source and destination respectively.

J
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