using dd to backup entire hard drive

Am 31. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bob Holtzman so:

> On 30 Jan 2003, Craig White wrote:
>
> > As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahead
> > and did it.
> >
> > dd if=3D/dev/hda of=3D/dev/hdd bs=3D512
> >
> > and it worked fine (target drive was slave on secondary controller,
> > hence /dev/hdd
>
> Would it work to use /dev/ht0 instead of /dev/hdd to dump to tape. If
> so, do you swap /dev/hda with /dev/ht0 to recover data?

/dev/ht0? *ack*, *ack*

Use ide-scsi.

http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org/ATAPI.html

Yes, though, you can dd to and from tape.

For that investigate the dump command as well.

ciao,

der.hans
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