External Hard Drive Copy

[mrderp]

Hey all... I have a question for you about copying an external HDD to another external HDD.

I've got several of these drive:

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11156

I have one drive split up into 15 partitions with a bunch of data on each partition. I need to copy the contents of my main external drive (partitions, data, and all) to all the other drives. What would be the easiest way to do this?

Thank you guys in advance for your time,

Allan

 

[Evaders99]

Acronis to do a full disk copy

 

[drescherjm]

dd if=/dev/sourcedevice of=/dev/destinationdevice bs=8M

Replace source device with the real device

sda possibly

Same with the destiantiondevice.

Use fdisk to determine what drive is the source

fdisk -l

dd and fdisk are available on any linux live cd including systemrescuecd.
http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page

clonezilla will also do this if the linux commands do not make any sense to you..

http://clonezilla.org/