From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue May  2 11:44:08 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E712416A44B
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  2 May 2006 11:44:08 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com)
Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB16043D6D
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  2 May 2006 11:44:01 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com)
Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so1861276wxc
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 02 May 2006 04:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=WI9UCCOag3lgBAAQ6ry3xiLQbtMFImWNs1GiCgat1vxOxBZF67da3GLyzRxUi5X3Wyau+mnN3zdSTirwHjfpIaBfVHQovSHNRfcB6SwRSKXx5C6NYYuqb9tcZoBJSVtvvLyEzmDKuT9F9PH1kCHiR6Y9240x+lNobVNdmV5bDUw=
Received: by 10.70.78.18 with SMTP id a18mr742267wxb;
	Tue, 02 May 2006 04:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.70.76.10 with HTTP; Tue, 2 May 2006 04:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <80f4f2b20605020444r6edc0598tbd36a86dff8cb0ef@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 07:44:00 -0400
From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <20060502012645.GD81777@wantadilla.lemis.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <80f4f2b20605011644r87563a0r9141d4a62a28b98b@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060502000409.GZ81777@wantadilla.lemis.com>
	<80f4f2b20605011820w314d8852t231e65bfebf5f6e6@mail.gmail.com>
	<80f4f2b20605011821v5e6a51c2i458af940512cf42@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060502012645.GD81777@wantadilla.lemis.com>
Subject: Re: dd issues
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:44:09 -0000

> That doesn't sound like a backup to me.  dd isn't a backup program,
> and CDs are not normally things you back up.

A backup is just a copy of the data on a different media than the
source (in this case, a hard drive). People back up CDs alll the time,
in case they get scratched or damaged, and they don't want to have to
deal with finding/obtaining replacements. In some cases, the
replacements aren't even possible, such as if the distributing company
went out of business.

> Use the conv=3Dsync
> operation to transfer the last incomplete block correctly.

Ahh, that will be useful. Thank you.