I've recently setup a development server which has two identical 250gb hard drives in it.

I want to setup some kind of backup to replicate one drive to the other, but I don't really know the best or easiest way to do this.

I looked at setting up raid, but it just went over my head.

I looked at the LVM method, and again, it seemed a little long winded.

Are there any other ways to do this, or easy ways to do the above?

I'd love to have RAID setup, but I just found it far to complex. One of the tutorials I read wanted to setup a boot menu in grub, but I don't have a screen connected to the server so how would I ever see it?

Any help would be appreciated.

There are many choices, tar rsync and mondoarchive to name a few.

You did not mention the OS that you are using, but you can do a search on those to start.

The OS is centos 6.0

You should be able to do a yum install on rsync and mondo.

Don't forget about dd.

Hope this helps.

I'm not sure about CentOS but Fedora comes with fwbackups which should server your needs assuming you have a gui running. If not then etech3 already pointed you to where you want to go.

G4u is a way,I use it a lot.

Partimage may work.

As above dd, tar, clonezilla, redobackup and rsync may work.

this works for me

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