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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:16 -0800
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
To:        "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: copy harddrive image 
Message-ID:  <200210292048.g9TKmG1J015723@axp.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com>  of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:32 PST." <20021029203832.51573.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com> 

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> I have had a harddrive which is doing the SMART imminent failure thing
> for the last little while.  I had western digital send me a new drive so
> I could copy all my data over.  I am wondering what the best way to do
> this is?  "dd if=ad0 of=ad1" doesn't seem to be like a good method..
> any input?

That method has worked great for me in the past.  But I have usually done
this with brand new disks (source being freshly installed).  Also no
partitions on either disk were mounted.

I would add the argument bs=131072

 - Mike

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