Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:58:00 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.Com> To: hdalog@zipnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to bulk duplicate hard drives? Message-ID: <199603272058.MAA09907@MediaCity.Com> In-Reply-To: <199603271106.GAA05037@hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Mar 27, 96 06:06:08 am"
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> [brian wrote] > > Long ago, I used to > > dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1024k > > to duplicate a drive. However, this no longer works. > > What is the right way, if any, to duplicate an entire drive > > under FreeBSD 2.2-current? Peter Dufault wrote: > What happens? I do the dd in single user mode. The bootmanager does not get copied. When I boot the "new" drive, I have removed the source one and changed the new drives SCSI ID to the same ID that the source drive was using. When I boot it comes up right into FreeBSD and the paritions don't seem to match and I get all kinds of errors. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD <brian@mediacity.com> http[s]://www.mpress.com
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