[ltp] Thinkpad model differences

[Buchan Milne]

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Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:42, Tom Hoover wrote:

> Slightly apropos of that, I also purchased another of the same hard
> drive as comes with the machine, and a carrier to mount it in the
> Ultrabay.  My backup is "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=16384k" (about 2
> hours and 41 minutes).  If the hard drive should quit, I exchange them
> and I'm up again immediately.  I can also temporarily divert the backup
> drive to experiment with new software or new distros of Linux.

Assuming you have a previous backup on the disk, rysnc will be
substantially faster, though you would have to run it per partition. On
my desktop, I have an 80GB, of which 40GB is data, and a removable 40GB
drive, which rysnc's my 25GB of linux data (my fat32 partition has some
temorary stuff that differs at present that I don't want to merge yet)
every time I boot up or down (via an init script). Normally, all 25GB
gets sync'ed in under 3 minutes.

Buchan

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