backup and restore a complete working bootable linux drive

After you have completed building a new server, you should make a dissaster recovery backup. The concept is really very simple, but it requires that several detail oriented tasks be completed perfectly, or you will not be able to create a bootable hard drive that works without a tun of fuss. In order to complete this guide you need to have two boxes running linux. One contains the hard drive you want to create a backup of. The second machine will be used to copy the partitions from the drive of the first.