[Suns-at-Home] SunOs - Disk clone

[Lewis, Ben (Ben)]

> My question is can I somehow copy the entire disk so that in the event
of the disk drive failing I can rebuild the system.

Hi Martin=20

Something like "dd over netcat" might help if they're both wired for
TCP/IP.

More info here :-

http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html

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This will do a basic copy of files from one system to another. Now, as I
mentioned above, devices in *nix are files. So we are going to use this
same principle to copy the contents of 1 hard drive one a machine to
another, except instead of redirecting the standard inputs/outputs, we
will pipe them to/from DD. To do so I would run the following commands:

On the target system I would run:
nc -l -p 7000 | dd of=3D/dev/hda

On the source system I would run:
dd if=3D/dev/hda | nc 192.168.1.120 7000 -q 10
</block quote>

Best regards

Ben

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