Andy wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:49, Hugh Foster wrote: > >> IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog >> through all the settings again manually? > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would be using dd. > > If you can come up on a floppy or CD 'recovery' distro that does not > require your source HDD to be mounted, or, you can come up in single > user mode with the source HDD mounted as read-only, you can easily > use dd to dump the source drive to the destination drive sector by > sector. > Hmm... I'm looking at just this sort of a solution for a one-time mirror of my server. When FC2 comes out I want to try an upgrade (so I can keep all of my configuration in place), but want a fallback if something fails. I plan to get a drive which is the same make/model as the one I have now, so dd may be a good solution. The man page is not too helpful for me; is there a write-up toward which someone can point me? Thanks, -Don
