From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 21:10:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCE937BC4C for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07407; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:10:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38C33DB9.E1CF2C92@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:10:17 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0302 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Fedde Cc: Kevin Oberman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying partitions References: <200003052317.e25NHhT32303@fedde.littleton.co.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message