[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

[Jim Ray]

ghost image is what i'd use if you have to have the same stuff on the new drive.

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	From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:Ken.Coar at Golux.Com] 
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	Subject: [TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement
	
	

	heh.  my laptop drive is starting to whine and buzz, so
	ibm is sending me a replacement.  that's cool hardwarily,
	but.. what's the best path for backing the current drive
	up and restoring it onto the new one?  rh 7.2, five partitions
	on the drive.  i have my 7.2 cds.  i'm guessing one possibility
	is to come up on the cd, do a dump 0 of each filesystem off
	to another system over the network, replace the unit, fdisk
	it and newfs it to get the partition structure back, and
	then restore 0 the dumps back over the network.  the two parts
	of that i'm unsure about are a) doing stuff over the network
	from the cd boot, and b) writing the boot block on the new
	drive.
	
	is the above a workable/the best solution?  or is there a
	better one?
	
	tia..
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