Re: Clone or copy failing hard Disk

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:25:41 -0600, Gordon Darling wrote:

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

FWIW - Not too long ago I replace a 40gb disk in my laptop with a 120gb.
I backed everything to an external USB drive using partimage from a Live
CD - then swapped drives and restored them.
.

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