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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:09:42 -1000
From:      "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   duplicating a disk
Message-ID:  <1AE4686642B@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>

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Hi,

I'm thinking of upgrading my 2.0.5 system to 2.1, but don't want to 
have it off line for very long. I have a second disk the same as the 
one 2.0.5 is on, so perhaps I can just copy the whole disk to it?

If I put the disk into the 2.0.5 system and make sure it's configured 
for wd1 can I then type something like "cp /dev/rwd0 /dev/rwd1" to 
duplicate the disk?

I could then upgrade one disk offline, then install it in the working 
host to test, and have a good backup.

Will this work?

TIA
peter


Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432



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