using dd to backup entire hard drive

[Bob Holtzman]

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=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512
> 
> 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?

TIA

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Bob Holtzman
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