cloning drive

[Ron Smith]

For simplicity you might want to just use the standard Unix utility 
dump. It should be able to dump the contents of the drive to a USB or 
Firewire external drive. It won't be an exact *image* of the disk, but 
it can back up all the contents. You would probably have to dump each 
OS separately to back them up too. =(

As far as actually cloning the drive, I'm not positive that it would 
work for your application (nor have I compiled it on YDL myself yet), 
but Ghost for Unix g4u might be worth checking out. It should be 
available at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
When I last used it, I made a floppy to boot the machine with the drive 
I wanted to clone and it cloned the drive, sending the image to an ftp 
server.

-Ron

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 06:31 AM, Michael Molino wrote:

> I have an iBook running YDL 3.0 with a 30 GB harddrive.  I just bought 
> a WD
> 200 GB internal IDE drive ($100.00 after rebates) and a hard drive 
> enclosure
> that lets me use the drive as an external Firewire or USB 2.0 drive 
> ($50).
> I'd like to make two partitions out of it - one 30 GB drive as a 
> complete
> backup of my laptop, and the rest of the space for media.
>
> What is the best way to clone my laptop hardrive onto the partition?
>
> Keep in mind, my 30 GB harddrive is not one partition.  I have an OSX
> partition as well as whatever partitions YDL created.  I want to be 
> able to
> completely restore my laptop in a wort-case-scenario event (for 
> instance
> having to replace my harddrive because of disk failure).
>
> -- 
> Michael Molino
> 973-769-0994
> michaelmolino@ydl.net
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> illusion."
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