1.1. Disclaimer

This article assumes that the reader using the described setup is familiar with the technical concepts and commands. If you are not comfortable issuing the commands in this document or don't understand the clone script, don't try these instructions.

Additionally, if you do not know the difference between /dev/hda and /dev/hda1, please do not use this HOWTO. This may be the difference between restoring a partition and losing all your data. Please note that I take no responsibility for anything that may go wrong, even if the error resulting from any incorrectness in this article.

For the purpose of this document, the RedHat 7.3 distribution has been used in both server and client. Although this shouldn't make great difference, no test has been made on other distributions or custom setups.

1.2. Copyright

Copyright (c) 2002 Guilherme Tupynambá

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. The clone script is licensed in the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

1.3. Feedback

Comments on this article will be highly appreciated. Direct your comments to <gtupy (at) uol.com.br>.