Re: Disk cloning script...

From: Stachu 'Dozzie' K. (dozzie_at_dynamit.im.pwr.wroc.pl.nospam)
Date: 04/10/05

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    Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:25:17 +0000 (UTC)

    On 09.04.2005, Michael Pelletier <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote:
    > 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...

    Quite simple. Let me assume that you're using some sort of
    FreeBSD Live CD[*] and want to mirror whole disk /dev/ad0 to /dev/ad1
    (ad1 has to be not smaller than ad0). Boot FreeBSD and start rescue
    shell, then type something like this:
    #v+
    dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=4096
    #v-
    and wait until dd ends copying data. Then you can halt your machine,
    exchange disks on controller and you should be able to boot old system
    from the new disk.

    [*] Using Live CD here is not quite bad idea since you suspect that old
    disk is going to fail and want to minimize the old disk's use before
    finishing backup. 

    -- 
Feel free to correct my English
Stanislaw Klekot
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