Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:42:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: copy harddrive image Message-ID: <20021029124253.A3593@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com>; from darren780@yahoo.com on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:38:32PM -0800 References: <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:38:32PM -0800, Mr. Darren wrote: > I have had a harddrive which is doing the SMART > imminent failure thing for the last little while. I > had western digital send me a new drive so I could > copy all my data over. I am wondering what the best > way to do this is? "dd if=ad0 of=ad1" doesn't seem > to be like a good method.. any input? Recreating the partitions and using "dump | restore" is probably the best option if it's all FreeBSD. Matt Dillon's cpdup is good as well though if be some chance you have files with holes, dump is the only thing that can actually work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9vvLMXY6L6fI4GtQRAhEIAKDc9hMvBYhlTrQdutCBbcgL4b6megCeMLSO l2Yy0LbKb+mXppzwCcNNcpM= =wQ/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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