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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:13:41 -0700
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From: Dale Phillips <dphillip@tabfs.com>
Subject: cd-writer and dd of root on another machine
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Hello All, 
As a long time lurker .... This is a great list. 

This question may be a bit off topic but I beleive it
would be helpful to others.

Here goes.

In a multi sever environment with one cd-writer (hp6020i).
I would like to create cd-roms of the root partitions on my
other servers (not all freebsd :-( tho). I am not too familar
with the guts of how cd-writers work other than I have to be
careful that the "feed" to the writer is steady.

Should I just dd from svr1 its root part. to svr2 to disk, Then dd 
to the cd-writer (disk space is ample)? Or do you think I could 
just do it directly to the cd-writer mount point from the foriegn 
root mount point?

Then the big question how do you verify a backup to a cd-writer?

Thanks

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Dale Phillips         Seize the day but ...
dphillip@tabfs.com    don't strangle it!