Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:10:17 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying partitions Message-ID: <38C33DB9.E1CF2C92@gorean.org> References: <200003052317.e25NHhT32303@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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Chris Fedde wrote:
>
> "Kevin Oberman" writes:
> +---------------
> | With the low price of disk drives and the high price of both tape
> | drives and media, I have decided that a disk is the most cost
> | effective backup medium I can buy.
> +---------------
>
> I've been making clones of drives using dd for years. I've even
> used dd to make clones of drives with windows partitions. If the
> geometry of the two drives is identical you can simply use something
> like
>
> dd if=/dev/da0c of=/dev/da1c
I learned recently that this goes a lot faster if you use /dev/rda0c
instead of /dev/da0c. Usually setting the block size around 1024k helps
as well.
Good luck,
Doug
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