Take a look at: man rsync
Regards,
Smitty
On Monday 08 December 2003 20:06, you wrote:
> Hi. I got a spare drive (hdc now), that is the same model (IBM/Hitachi
> IC35L120AVV207-0) as my main drive. Both are 120 decimal GB (~= 115
> binary GB). Right now I've set up a nightly 5am block copy copy (using
> dd) hda -> hdc. I realize this is not the most efficient method of copy,
> but as it's a personal system and unused at that time of the morning, the
> time taken isn't a problem. When I press the backup drive into service, it
> will appear as if the power had just been restored after an unclean
> shutdown. "sync" runs every minute to reduce the amount of data in
> unflushed buffers.
>
> The reason I wanted to do a block copy was that that was the only way I
> could think of to maintain partitions (if I repartition the main drive,
> the backup drive gets repartitioned automatically), and copy boot sectors
> and the like.
>
> Can anybody think of a better way to do what I'm trying to do?
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