copy HD Image

[Ali Sunderji]

Hi all, I am looking for a fast way of imaging my customized HD onto 2 simillar raw HD's.

I have an Ignite Tape cut and was considering booting and restoring from this tape...I am not sure
how exectly to do this

In the Past I have dd'd the image from primary Disk onto a new Dsik after booting from a CD.

Is there another alternative ..my current Disks are mirrored.

many thanks in advance..

[harry d brown jr]

Ali,

Why not mirror to the other disks?

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harry

[Martin Burnett_2]

Hello Ali,

There are several ways to do this:

1. make_recovery tape as you suggested with an interactive restore.

2. Mirror the 2 smaller drives to the one larger drive as suggested by Harry.

3. Add the 2 smaller drives to the volume group (vgextend) and then use pvmove to move the physical extents onto the 2 drives.

Actions 2 & 3 will require that you designate one of the 2 new drives as the primary boot drive using pvcreate -B, mkboot and lvlnboot commands when adding the drive.

Thanks for participating in the forums,

Martin
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[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Ali

That is the only best was to do it ie dd. Incase you have raw partitons on the file system then you can only do a dd or mirror , however if you ahve proper filesystems then you can may be do a cpio or copy on tape and restore.


Manoj Srivastava

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Ali,

If you decide to mirror to the other disks, remember that 2 is the max mirror copies. So you'd have to mirror to one, then split it off & mirror to the other as you already have 1 mirror copy.

Rgds,
Jeff