On 09-12-01 13:01:47, Dan Thurman wrote:
Which is the preferred "backup" solution?
...
I am trying to get data off of disk1 which is failing (via smartd)
and wish to use the correct backup and restore method getting the
data off of disk1 onto disk2 without "integrity loss", whatever that
means.
You don't seem to be doing a backup, but rather making a copy of an
existing drive. You should probably do that and then also make a
backup some other way.
To copy a disk, I always use dd and then expand the last partition as
needed (it's usually LVM2, so I then expand some of the LVs). The disk
I usually do this to has WinXP (and Win98) as well as Linux /boot and
LVM2 partitions.
In the case of dd, it falls flat, if there are sector errors and
this
would not work, as in my case - so backup programs that do byte copy
would perhaps also fail.
...
ddrescue
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