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Caesars727
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 Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Failure Imminent !! Help me back up Gentoo. |
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Gents, I run a dual boot system on a HP Pavillion notebook.
Got a message booting that is a SMART Hard drive message so basically my hd is about to die. Windows no longer boots from Grub, although, thank god, gentoo still does.
I have another computer on my gentoo network and was wondering how I can go about copying EVERYTHING on my "/" partition over to my other comp.
I would like to, then, once I get another hard drive, move it all back and not have to reconfigure gentoo.
PLEASE help me.
Thank you so much,
ALEX |
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db_404
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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This should work:
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cp -a / /mnt/nfsdir
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I've recovered systems from tarfiles before too, so
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tar -cvzpf /mnt/nfsdir/backup.tgz /
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Would work too, if you were short on space on the destination.
To recover just upack/copy back the files - however you will have to do some work in grub/lilo to get things bootable again. |
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Caesars727
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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OK, im going to give it try now.
Thanks for your help.
Alex |
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Nate_S
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| If you can connect the two drives to the same computer (whcih you'd probly need an adapter for, being that it's a notebook) dd_rescue is optimized for failing hard disks. I've used it before and it's worked well. |
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