Well since I don't have an output target big enough to take the DD output,
I am gonna have to figure out tar or DEDICATE etc.
Adam Thornton
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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
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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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