Cloning a Linux Hard Drive
Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to be a Linux guru to make clone a Linux hard drive. Understanding the basics however, that does help some.
Most system builders know all too well the headaches involved in recovering a crashed hard drive. The bottom line is, there really are only three kinds of hard drives:
* Hard drives that have failed.
* Hard drives that will fail.
* Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure.In this TechBuilder Recipe, I’ll show you how to set up a hard drive mirror clone–as opposed to a new drive mirror (or what’s known as a “bare metal restore”)–for Linux-based systems. [Read the rest]
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