How to full HDD clone (backup)?

Hi,
Any idea how to easy full clone (backup) 1:1 the same size hdd with sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4 (home folder dm-crypt and LUKS encrypted)?
I just would like to keep full system with all documents on spare hdd in any hardware failure...
Regards,
Slav

arokh wrote:You can achieve the same thing by doing an rsync or tar backup as well, and it should be tons faster than dd.
I was using rsync (via rsnapshot). I was disappointed at how much time it took to make a backup, although I admit, there's a possibility I was doing something wrong. Eventually I decided that if it's gonna take that long anyway, I might as well just copy everything.
Plus, there are reasons why many of my files change very frequently, which would make an incremental backup less convenient:
Arch Linux is rolling release, which means the operating system files often change.
I have three other operating systems installed that either get updated or just reinstalled.
I rearrange my personal files kind of frequently (for example, moving 8 GB from "Downloads" to "Movies")
Plus plus, I have partitions that don't even have read-write capabilities in Arch Linux (UFS for FreeBSD, BeFS for Haiku), although it sure would be convenient to me for someone to prove me wrong in that regard.
So, for someone with a "complicated" configuration, like tho OP, I think a dd command would be quite suitable.
Just partition the backup drive the same way, mount it all under /mnt and find a backup tutorial in the wiki to make your own script. Remember to install a bootloader on the backup drive as well.
You prefix all that with the word "just", but it really sounds a lot more complicated than my one dd command... I don't even have to test my backup. I tested it the first time (I was able to boot from my backup, everything worked fine), and now I just look for errors from the dd command. If the original works, then the backup works.

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1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
9. Data Backup (Commercial)
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1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
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4. arRSync
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alazahee wrote:
I did not change my mac, it is just that my hard disk got reconfigured.
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