Re: disk backup in linux

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:34:42AM -0500, Peter Bachman wrote:
> I have to exchange a failing laptop computer that originally had an
> 80gig HD in it. The old 80 g drive has data on it, and  is mountable on
> ext3 since I put it in a usb case.
> 
> The 320 G drive that I'm currently using is in the computer I'm
> returning, but will eventually  go in the new computer, which I just
> got, (but that has it's own 150 g drive). I also have a backup drive
> which is standalone.
> 
> What's the best way to go about this, the data is archival and I was
> going to store it on the backup drive. Should I just copy it, or DD, or
> try to clone it?

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Walt

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