Archiving workstation hard drives

[Jim Leonard]

Richard wrote:
> OK, suppose you have a workstation and it has stuff installed on its
> drives.  You don't have the original distribution media for the OS and
> any installed applications and you don't have a spare system with the
> same stuff installed.
> 
> What's the best way to make a backup of the entire hard drive so that
> the essential software doesn't get lost?
> 
> The drives are SCSI.

dd if=/dev/sda0 of=/some/filesystem/with/enough/space

Seriously!  Copies the entire thing, sector by sector, to a file.
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