[clue-tech] N00bish Question regarding drive duplication

[Mike Staver]

I've been in the development realm almost 100% over the last 3 years, so 
I'm getting insanely rusty with my linux skills.  Anyhow, I have a 
server at home where the age of the non-raid drives in it are concerning 
me. I think they are pushing 5 years now, and since this server isn't 
critical and I back it up, I'm not too worried about it.  However, I'd 
like to throw in a larger drive or two anyhow.  I use typical consumer 
Seagate OEM SATA drives in this machine, and I'm going to pick up a 1 TB 
drive over the weekend.  My n00b-like question is - what is the easiest 
way to simply "ghost" a mirror image of one of my old drives onto a new 
one? In the past I've used Norton Ghost to do this in the windows world 
with mixed success.  I know in the past with Linux I've just tar'd up a 
bunch of files and moved them.  Please tell me there is a more modern 
and easy way these days :) Maybe a dd script or something, I'm not sure. 
Thanks in advance for any tips you can provide to the rusty guy.