Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:38:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502183811.21194P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980429142533.B22538@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jos Backus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:06:19PM -0400, drifter@stratos.net wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c > > > > Doesn't: > > # cat /dev/rwd0c > /dev/rwd1c > > > > work as well? Or is that asking for trouble? > > It should work, yes. The advantage(?) of using dd is that you can specify a > blocksize to use in order to speed up the copy. Then again, I'd take the > dump|restore route over this approach any day if reliability is any issue at > all. Don't forget to doublecheck that the disklabel and partition table are correct. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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