On Oct 8, 2004, at 12:59 PM, James Melin wrote:
I am making a file system image of /dev/dasd{x} using dd and shipping that file over to the target sytem work volume and Then mounting it on the loopback device and doing a tar -clSp per the move file system howto. I figure if it works for making iso images of CD's, then it should work for this
That would work, although if you link the device you could skip the copy-to-file. Actually, why do the dd? Just tar up the filesystem (GNU tar has some options that make this pretty easy), and send that over to the restore system.
Adam
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