[clue-tech] N00bish Question regarding drive duplication

[chris fedde]

You have several replies already but I want to throw in my $0.02.
If all volumes are ready on the same system (or even via NFS) I typically
use pax to move data:

    cd $source; pax -rwvpe . $destination

Simple and sweet.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:

> 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.
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