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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:06:31 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list)
Subject:   Re: good way to add disks?
Message-ID:  <199612270906.KAA03481@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612270835.JAA03088@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 27, 96 09:35:01 am"

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As Greg Lehey wrote:

> >  Only if
> > you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to
> > do this these days?
> 
> I, for one.  As long as you don't change your disk geometry, it works
> fine, and it's faster than any file-system related method.  There's
> only one problem: it doesn't work.

It does.

>   Possibly I just used the wrong
> device.

Likely.  You need to use the ``entire disk'' device:

	dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rst0 bs=64k

for the backup, and

	dd if=/dev/rst0 of=/dev/rsd0 bs=64k

for restore.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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