Sometime you want to clone and copy all disk from linux , these are easy steps .
1. Just use softwares , the software that we called ghost for linux. here http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_detail.php?id_item=4265
"Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost(c). The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server. The included kernel supports almost every common network interface, ATA and serial-ATA drives. The extended kernel on CD supports SCSI and several 1000 MBit network cards. It comes as 2 boot/root disks or a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI."
2.copy the partition table
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda_table
and to restore the partition table:
sfdisk /dev/sda < sda_table
for identical disk, very easy to transfer exact copy to other disk
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
Use tar to backup all the rest ofdata
3.list of more backup software is at http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=89
