From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 29 12:43:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C0237B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2254D43E91 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9TKgss7004325; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:42:54 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g9TKgsRu004324; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:42:54 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:42:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "Mr. Darren" Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: copy harddrive image Message-ID: <20021029124253.A3593@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com>; from darren780@yahoo.com on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:38:32PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3Dad0 of=3Dad1" 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 --=20 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 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message