[Malvern] New HDD - copying everything across

[Gerard P. Howells]

Ghost for Linux (http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/) might be a good 
idea.  I've only ever used the Win32 version but it is a great way of 
making disk backups and cloning hard drives.

Gerard.

P.S. I have a Compaq ProLiant server (Xeon 266, 512MB Ram, 9 7 Gig SCSI 
HDD's with Ubuntu "Hoary" installed) for sale currently if anyone's 
interested let me know.  </shameless sell>

Robin Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've recently acquired a new hard drive to replace a failing one in my 
> linux server. I want to copy everything that is currently on my hard 
> drive to my new one. This is a secondary hard drive which has /home 
> mounted on it - everything else will be staying on the first hard drive.
>
> How should I do this? Will cp (with relevant recursive parameters - 
> and any other parameters needed...could someone enlighten me?) work 
> ok, or will I need to use some specialised disk mirroring/ghosting 
> program?
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome,
>
> Robin
>
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