January 6, 201115 yr I was wanting to duplicate some of my drives and I was wondering if anyone had used a drive duplicator on a unRaid drive? Any thoughts and comments are appreciated.
January 6, 201115 yr Define drive duplicator? You mean like disk1 to disk2? cp -r /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2
January 7, 201115 yr Author Stand alone duplicator, totally external. Like this: http://us.startech.com/product/SATDOCK22RE-eSATA-USB-to-SATA-Standalone-Hard-Drive-Duplicator-Dock
January 7, 201115 yr I didn't look too closely but the description makes it sound like the thing does a 1:1 copy by directly copying all the sectors from 1 drive to the copy drive. If that is the case, You'll get a copy no matter what is on the original drive. Even a parity drive could be duplicated. Peter
January 7, 201115 yr Why buy hardware when you can use Kizer's technique to do it with your existing server? However, I would probably copy to a cache drive or something outside the array.
January 9, 201115 yr Define drive duplicator? You mean like disk1 to disk2? cp -r /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 If you truly wish to duplicate a drive .... any drive .... without buying additional hardware, then dd is your friend. Just be very careful when specifying your output device! dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdg
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