On Sunday 30 March 2003 07:57 pm, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I am about to make the trip to shutdown one of our servers and 'dd' the > first SCSI drive to the second. > > from what I have read, and what some of you have kindly offered, I just > kick into single user mode, with only root mounted on the primary drive,
ro, I assume > and away we go... > > dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1m That'll copy the data, but you'll want to prep the disk. I've seen recommendations something along the lines of: read data off the whole new disk first dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/null then write the data you want on it, then read it off to /dev/null again. Something to the effect of populating the drives on disk bad sector records. There may be more burn in recommended, but I couldn't find anything in the archives. > One last question, the second drive is identical to the first, but should > it be right out odf the box condition, formatted, fdisk'ed partiitioned or > does any of that matter since it will be copies bit for bit? None of that matters for the reason you noted. > TIA! np, Tim _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
