[John F Davis] > Whoa dd. That's low level. I tired using dd to mirror hard disks, > but if my memory serves me right it required as much disk space as your > needed to mirror. This is not a problem if you are going from drive to > drive, but if you only have disk drive connection and you need to swap > out the src drive to insert the dest drive you need the disk space for > the intermediate storage.
could always dd | gzip -c > foo.img.gz then gzip -dc foo.img.gz | dd Or any of a number of other options *shrug* Separation of backup method and compression method can be a good thing (say you wanna switch to bzip2 instead). -- James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4
