STxFarmer Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Define drive duplicator? You mean like disk1 to disk2? cp -r /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2 Quote Link to comment
STxFarmer Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Stand alone duplicator, totally external. Like this: http://us.startech.com/product/SATDOCK22RE-eSATA-USB-to-SATA-Standalone-Hard-Drive-Duplicator-Dock Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
PeterB Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
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