07-24-2008
If you have the ability to do so, you can take a "poor man's" backup of the machine to clone it by putting the other disk into an enclosure (USB or Firewire) and then attaching it to the original machine.
If you can take downtime, drop to single user mode and copy the physical device to the other physical device such as:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
where "if" is the input file (the disk you are copying) and "of" is the output file, the place you are copying it to.
This will copy EVERYTHING from the first disk to the second disk, barring failures or hardware issues. However, it will copy blank space and will take a long time. Figure on about 6hrs easily.
Also, if you accidentally screw up the if and of parts, you will have destroyed your machine (No joke, all data will be lost)
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fosread
FOSREAD(1) User Commands FOSREAD(1)
NAME
fosread - FOS reader
SYNOPSIS
fosread [options] device mode [node] [path]
DESCRIPTION
Tool for a read-only access on Smaky FOS.
-h --help
Display help message.
-v --version
Show version.
-a --harddisk
Force an hard disk instead of the autodetection.
-f --floppydisk
Force a floppy disk instead of the autodetection.
-l --fos-logger
Turn ON the FOS logger.
-u --undelete
enable the undelete mode, even deleted files will be listed and sometimes restorable with get mode.
device /dev/fd0 for floppy disk
/dev/sda for hard disk, etc, ...
mode list : list the content of a node
get : copy a file from the Smaky disk in a local directory
node The tree with the file (or folder) for get or list.
example: foo/bar/toto.text
path You can specify a path for save the file (with get mode).
AUTHOR
Written by Mathieu Schroeter <mathieu.schroeter@gamesover.ch>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <fosfat-devel@gamesover.ch>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Mathieu Schroeter
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
fosread(1)
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