Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:13:55 +0200 (West-Europa (zomertijd)) From: Rogier Steehouder <r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: using dd to copy a DOS partition Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.33.0104210011190.-16370735-100000@rhosgobel> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104201654140.29533-100000@echonyc.com>
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Mail from Ken Seggerman, sent 20-04-2001:
> I just used dd:
>
> dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/mnt/backups/windows/filename.iso
> 1644993+0 records in
> 1644993+0 recoreds out
> 842236416 bytes transferred in 1599.248182 secs (526645 bytes/sec
>
> I did not specify anything in the bs= field of dd.
>
> The dd command worked. Will this give me a viable backup?
You can mount a file using vnconfig:
# vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 <filename>
# mount -t msdos /dev/vn0 /mnt
Then use diff or similar to verify the backup.
with kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
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