From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 10 17:30:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pacman.redwoodsoft.com (redwoodsoft.com [207.181.199.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DD1815190 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dnelson@redwoodsoft.com) Received: (qmail 2357 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 01:29:57 -0000 Received: from localhost.redwoodsoft.com (127.0.0.1) by localhost.redwoodsoft.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 1999 01:29:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:29:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dru Nelson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using dd to make backup of disk? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've used dump and dd. Both work great. dd can be slow with large disks, and dump deals with varied disk sizes better. dump requires a little extra work for the disk label. Dru Nelson Redwood City, California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message