Saturday, February 19, 2005

Disk Cloning

"I admin a small ISP. In the past few weeks, we have had three Seagate drives bite the dust (all the same model/batch), so the assumption is that the other drives are following soon.

Replacement drives are only about $100 at Fry's, but who wants to rebuild a dozen machines. The new drives are also bigger, so using dd to image the drives would work, but I wouldn't get the benefit of the increased drive space."

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