Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:06:36 +0200 From: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk! Message-ID: <19980422110636.C7207@asterix.urc.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980422084413.1978.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>; from boma toma on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:44:13AM -0700 References: <19980422084413.1978.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:44:13AM -0700, boma toma wrote:
> Is it possible to make and exact image ( each byte by byte and
> sector by sector ) on another hard disk, e-g secotr 1 of the master
> disk should be exactly copied on the sector 1 of the slave disk ?
> Both Hard disks are on same machine!
If the disks are exactly identical geometry/size-wise and have the same amount
of disk blocks, this can be a simple as
# dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c
(this example, of course, assumes you want to copy disk 0 to disk 1).
Hth,
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