Original question was what is the best way to duplicate an external system
disk so that in the event of a system disk failure, the backup disk can be
used to replace the crashed system disk rather than restore from a 0 level
dump tape.
The overwhelming response indicates that dd is the way to go:
i.e.; - reboot in single user mode
- disklabel -z rzYY (target disk)
- dd if=/dev/rrzXXc of=/dev/rrzYYc bs=2048k
Thanks to:
Nancy Davis NASA/GSFC
Treahy
Chad Price Univ. Nebraska Medical Center
James Eiler Alcoa
Jim Bostwick cargill
Bugs Brouillard Humboldt State Univ.
Sam Guercio Comptek Amherst Systems
Nick Leonard
Laurent Sainte-Marthe GENOSCOPE - CNS
Michael Pelley
Mike Topping
Mandell Degerness
Received on Mon Sep 27 1999 - 14:58:09 NZST