[LBo] Mirroring Program

[TerryJ]

John Fielding schrieb:
> Does anyone know of a program that will copy the entire contents of a 
> hard
> drive including installed programs, settings etc to a new hard drive?

I suggest that you look at the various options and make up your own 
mind.  dd has drawbacks and all methods probably do.  Here are two 
illuminating articles:

http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix
http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=637

After a lot of reading, I reached the conclusion that dar was the best 
method.  There is a GUI frontend KDar which impressed me unfavourably 
but has at least one admirer:
http://wiki.motin.eu/BackingUpALinuxDesktopTheKillerStrategy

After I had (painfully) reached that conclusion, someone mentioned mondo 
archive, which is far more user-friendly and actually creates a bootable 
DVD (or CD) which you can use for the restoration:  
http://www.mondorescue.org/  Unfortunately, my present OS does not have 
the libraries needed for the latest version.  The previous version 
declined to create a DVD even though it appeared to include that option.

Someone else mentioned Ghost4Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

On this subject, as on almost all Linux-related subjects, there are 
self-appointed oracles who will tell you, as though their opinions and 
knowledge are perfect and infallible, that such and such is the 
uncontested and perfect answer.  Don't believe them.

Good luck.

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Regards, TerryJ

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