Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 00:51:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: boot@mosquito.com (Bruce Bauman) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, boot@itchy.mosquito.com Subject: Re: disk-to-disk copy Message-ID: <199609280752.AAA14955@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199609280721.DAA02418@itchy.mosquito.com> from Bruce Bauman at "Sep 28, 96 03:21:59 am"
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> I have 2 SCSI disks which are going bad, and I've already > gotten (identical) replacement drives. I'd like to copy > everything (data, partition tables, etc) from the old drives > to the new ones. Is there an easy way to do this? > > Nothing jumped out at me from the man pages. I'd rather > not have to go through disklabel, dump, restore, etc. If they are truely identical in block count this will do it: dd if=/dev/rsdX of=/dev/rsdY bs=8192 Note that hard errors are going to cause this to abort, so turn on ARRE to try and minimize them with: scsi -f /dev/rsdX -m 1 -P3 -e -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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