rsync - Nov 2006 - How Can I Duplicate an Entire Drive?

This is a newbie request, but I haven't found any info on how to do this.

I have a working Apache server I would like to make a complete, exact
duplicate of. I am upgrading to a new hard drive and need to move the entire
drive contents & file structure, and when it's complete I need to reboot
the
server on the new drive.

I've looked into various disk copy & backup programs and the consensus
is
rsync is the tool I need. But all the instructions I've read are how to copy
specific directories and/or do incremental backups, not on mirroring a
complete drive.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!
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On Friday 10 November 2006 03:18, Robert Temple wrote:
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> I've looked into various disk copy & backup programs and the
consensus is
> rsync is the tool I need. But all the instructions I've read are how to
> copy specific directories and/or do incremental backups, not on mirroring a
> complete drive.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
Hi Robert,
I think you will be better off using a tool such as "dd" which will do
a copy
of the disk rather than the files.  I'd have a look at the dd man page and 
see if it does what you are looking for.  I used it to take a disk image of a 
failing disk over my lan.  Worked great.
Regards,
 -Ed

PS: Rsync users, if you think I am wrong, please let me know... knowledge is 
power. ;)