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Subject: clone a drive, no raid involved
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I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and 
completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is 
secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low 
volume/loads.

It looks like I can use DD to copy an entire drive, but it's a 500G drive 
and that's going to take a really long time (especially since it's brand 
new with no data besides base OS).

My question: Is there a better way to duplicate a drive including boot info?

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