cloning drive

Mike Murphree yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Sep 2 13:55:01 2003


Ron Smith said:
> 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. =(

Dump won't work on his Mac OS X partition though.  With some patience,
he might be able to use 'dd' to dump the entire thing as a file to a
sufficiently big drive.

Mike