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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      George Yobst <george@lincc.lib.or.us>
To:        drifter@stratos.net
Cc:        Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk! 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980422135821.11326A-100000@lincc.lincc.lib.or.us>
In-Reply-To: <199804221806.OAA26238@stratos.net>

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote:
*Wed. 22, APR 1998: Jos Backus wrote...
*
*>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
*
*	Doesn't:
*	# cat /dev/rwd0c > /dev/rwd1c
*
*	work as well? Or is that asking for trouble?

I use dump/restore - works great for those special /dev files:
  dump 0f - / | (cd /mroot; restore xf -)
I don't know if it does it sector by sector, though. - george
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