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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