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it is not hard to setup...nice tool

good luck

On 9/13/05, Michael B. Trausch &lt;fd0man at gmail.com&gt; wrote:
&gt; Sid Lane wrote:
&gt; &gt; all,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; for reasons I do not which to discuss I have a semi-pressing need to
&gt; &gt; make as close a backup as possible of a running RH7.2 box.  I can
&gt; &gt; shutdown as many services as needed but am somewhat afraid of rebooting
&gt; &gt; (especially spinning down the drives since we have had fairly high
&gt; &gt; failure rate with that model).
&gt; &gt;
&gt; 
&gt; If the second machine is going to have an exactly identical copy of the
&gt; drive, then this will work:
&gt; 
&gt;         - Unmount everything but /, remount / read-only.
&gt;         - On the second machine, use a live distro that has dd and sshd.
&gt;         - On the first machine (the one you want to duplicate), keep
&gt;           sshd running (note, this may require you install ssh on /,
&gt;           depending on your partition layout)
&gt;         - On the second machine, do the following:
&gt; 
&gt;          # ssh first-machine 'dd if=/dev/name-of-entire-device' | \
&gt;            dd of=/dev/name-of-entire-device
&gt; 
&gt; It will take a while, but it will work.  I have used it successfully to
&gt; clone drives at work when things break.  :)
&gt; 
&gt;         - Mike
&gt; 
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