Hard Drives, mirroring and SATA

Mon Apr 17 23:58:22 UTC 2006

On 4/17/06, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The next question is, how do I mirror a hard drive (rather than go
> through the hassle of reinstalling)?  Can I do a dd from one drive to
> another?  Do I need to do this with a live CD?  Or is it easier to just
> reinstall?

Mount both hard drives, then do:

rsync -av --delete --progress /path/to/source/ /path/to/dest/

I do this to back up to secondary and tertiary hard drives.
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