[oclug] Imaging a Drive

[Allan McIntosh]

#> 
#> I am looking at changing the drive in my server.  I was thinking of an
#> Adaptec 29160 controller card and a Quantum Ultra 160 10K drive.
#> Presently I have an older IDE drive.  Has anyone had any luck using
#> software like Drive Image or Ghost on Linux partitions.   The problem is
#> that I will need to expand the partitions once the transfer is done.
#> Can anyone offer some suggestions.
#> 
#> Thanks,
#> Charles
#> 
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#Yes.  Read the hard-drive-upgrade mini howto.  All your problems will be solved
#;)


I would partition the new disk with ext2 and swap. 
Then I would tar the old partition.

- shut down none essential services(so logging is at a minimum).
- Destroy any log files you don't need rm -f /var/log/*.[2-9] or
  something along these lines. 


 cd /root

 vi excludes

 add these three lines
 /proc/*
 /tmp/*
 /usr/doc/*
 /and any other things you do not want included.  

 (be in /root)
 tar czvfp /tmp/image.tar.gz /* -X image_excludes


This will create an image of your current file system.

Then expand this image to to your new drive and you have a back up of your
current files system. Be sure to adjust any partition changes to
/etc/fstab if required on the new drive. Don't forget to run lilo on the
new drive. 

Al

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