Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:48:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Cc: justin@ashworth.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk copying Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915214234.3096I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709141002.FAA25803@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > Justin Ashworth writes: > > > > What is the easiest and most reliable way to copy my data from one hard > > drive to another? > Unless the two drives are identical, or at least the 2nd is larger, you > could use "dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=rsd1 bs=1024k" or similar. Need to do more > checking on the exact device to use for the copy, you want a "whole > device" device, not one working out of slices. I just realized that I documented the safe way to do this in the disk formatting tutorial (now at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat -- update your URLs!). It's basically a tar c | tar x type operation except it calls pax directly. (When I did it using dump/restore I didn't keep the command lines, but the pax style was submitted to me and is equivalent.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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