Re: Cloning Hard Disk

Dan C wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:19:31 +0800, Dan N wrote:

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Is there some way to clone what I've got on this disk onto a
replacement? I don't really want to install everything from scratch.


man dd


You can also use dd over ssh to clone to disks over the network, or the Internet, in a pinch, by dd'ing the disk to standard output, piping that to ssh and having ssh run dd from standard input on the remote machine to the drive. The reverse is also true. I've done this to restore machines which my friends own when I'm holding their backups for them off-site.

- Mike
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