On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:51 -0500, Michael Walma wrote: > > You might want to look into the 'dump/restore' combination. Dump will > create a dump 'image' of an entire ext2/3 filesystem at the inode level, > full or incremental, and restore, well, restores a filesystem. 'man > dump' will give you some good ideas on how to set up a cron job. Put > the dumps on to another disk, and you'd be in good shape. > > This howto > (http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2005/article370.shtml) shows you > how to use dump/restore with netcat (or ssh for the more security > minded) to clone computers over a network. It worked like a charm for > me, used in combination with a LiveCD. Boot the target with the LiveCD, > partition the drives, format the partitions, dump/netcat/restore the > filesystems over, chroot into the newly minted filesystem, run > grub-install and bingo, an exact copy, down to the inodes. It handles > different disk geometries and sizes fine, so long as you use matching > filesystem types on both sides. Thanks. Looked at man dump and feel like a kid with a new toy. -m