Disk Image Backup

[mark]

Michael Schwartz wrote:
> But will this image copy?  I need the entire operating system, 
> everything that will allow me to take the copy HD and just replace the 
> working HD and not go through any kind of special booting procedures.

I'm not sure you want that, perfectly, unless you'll be putting it on 
another *identical* machine, same motherboard and CPU (and same 
revisions on both).

	mark
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> Michael
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mark" <mroth at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 20:23
> Subject: Re: Disk Image Backup
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>> Michael Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a legacy (RH 7.2) system and need to make an image copy of the 
>>> hard drive.  If this machine goes down (hard drive gone) there is no 
>>> way for me to rebuild the applications.  Can anyone out there help 
>>> please?
>>
>> Um, buy a small hard drive (the newest big ones won't be recognized 
>> properly by the older machine's bios), put it on IDE2, shut the apps 
>> down, and copy all of that (*eigh*, except for /dev....)
>>
>> mark
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