Re: Disk cloning script...

From: Michael Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 04/10/05 

Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:51:45 -0700

Stachu 'Dozzie' K. wrote:

> On 09.04.2005, Michael Pelletier <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had, or knew of, a disk cloning script. I need
>> the script to make an exact copy of a system disk for backup purposes.
>
> Hmm... `dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.dump' isn't sufficient?
>

Here is the situation. I have two disks let's say ad0 and ad1. How could I
use the dd command to mirror disk ad0 to disk ad1? I have a disk that I
think will go bad (acd0) and need to mirror it to a new disk (acd1) before
it dies...

Michael 

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