From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 27 01:21:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA11649 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 01:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA11637 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 01:21:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA02834 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:21:30 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA28735 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:21:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA03481 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:06:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612270906.KAA03481@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: good way to add disks? To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:06:31 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612270835.JAA03088@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 27, 96 09:35:01 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > Only if > > you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to > > do this these days? > > I, for one. As long as you don't change your disk geometry, it works > fine, and it's faster than any file-system related method. There's > only one problem: it doesn't work. It does. > Possibly I just used the wrong > device. Likely. You need to use the ``entire disk'' device: dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rst0 bs=64k for the backup, and dd if=/dev/rst0 of=/dev/rsd0 bs=64k for restore. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)