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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:06:36 +0200
From:      Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to make and exact image of an hard disk!
Message-ID:  <19980422110636.C7207@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19980422084413.1978.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>; from boma toma on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:44:13AM -0700
References:  <19980422084413.1978.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>

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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:44:13AM -0700, boma toma wrote:
> Is it possible to make and exact image ( each  byte by byte  and
> sector by sector )  on another hard disk, e-g secotr 1 of the master
> disk  should be exactly copied on the sector 1 of the slave disk ?
> Both Hard disks are on same machine!

If the disks are exactly identical geometry/size-wise and have the same amount
of disk blocks, this can be a simple as

	# dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/rwd1c

(this example, of course, assumes you want to copy disk 0 to disk 1).

Hth,
-- 
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