Clone or copy failing hard Disk
- From: Gordon Darling <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:25:41 -0600
I have a dual core 64 bit Athlon based box running Suse 10.3 with a
failing hard disk. It'll run for 4 to 8 hours then freeze. Reboot and the
disk is missing from the BIOS. Wait 30 minutes for it to cool down and
the disk reappears and then I have to fsck the disk. The box is still
under rtb warranty but the supplier is sending me a replacement disk on a
swap basis.
I've managed to back up the important stuff to DVD (/home /etc and so on)
but the ideal solution would be to try and clone the disk or copy
everything with permissions, symlinks, etc (xxcopy?) if I can before it
fails totally.
Suggestions on best route to take when the replacement drive arrives.
Failing drive is SATA 250GB Hitachi partioned as
/dev/sda1 on /
/dev/sda2 on swap
/dev/sda6 on /home
/dev/sda5 on /usr
/dev/sda7 on /var
Replacement is 250Gb SATA Seagate
Regards
Gordon
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