I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different #
bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system
for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and
power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick
dd, since I don't want
Steve Franks wrote:
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different #
bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system
for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and
power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick
On December 1, 2007 03:19:59 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Steve Franks wrote:
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different #
bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system
for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and
power up.
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500
Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size
(512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input'
disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which
is only about 1.5
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different #
bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system
for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and
power up. I have
