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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:22:33 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        gcrutchr@nightflight.com (Gary Crutcher)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk replication
Message-ID:  <199601101922.UAA00711@mordillo>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960110144113.006952bc@nightflight.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Jan 10, 96 06:41:13 am

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hasn't Gary Crutcher said ? ...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 2nd SCSI drive (2.1 GB) which is the same as my 1st.  My 1st drive
> has FBSD 2.05 on it, and I boot from it.  How can I replicate the 1st drive
> onto the 2nd drive so I can disable the 1st drive and boot from the 2nd
> drive? I want to upgrade to 2.1 and if something goes wrong I need to bring
> my server back up quickly.  I can only have the system down for about an
> hour or so.
> 
> I would like to get info on how to do this ASAP as I want to do the upgrade
> this weekend.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
i think "dd if=/dev/sd0 of=/dev/sd1" should do the job (you must
adjust the drive-numbers to yours) 

t
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