backup up a laptop disk for replacement

[Jerry Feldman]

I would backup my home directory and any other special directory. I would 
then same my configuration. Then I would install Linux from scratch on the 
new drive. 
However, you can dd the drive image, but that is slow over a network. A 
SCSI drive via PCMCIA would work nicely. 
On 7 Nov 2002 at 15:50, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> 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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