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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:28:40 +0800 (MYT)
From:      Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To:        Gilad Rom <gilad_bsd@romat.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7
Message-ID:  <20040119002730.B98208-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
In-Reply-To: <400A6E8B.2090009@romat.com>

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Gilad Rom wrote:

> I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks (2x20GB, EIDE,
> UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes.

i've used dd to ghost two 36GB scsi hard disks on two separate controllers
in about 18 minutes. i used 1024k as my block size. using 10240K as block
size slowed it down somewhat, coming in at about 30 minutes.

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