using dd to backup entire hard drive

[Bryce C]

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Or tar.  That's what tar was meant for.

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 14:32, der.hans wrote:
> Am 31. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bob Holtzman so:
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> > On 30 Jan 2003, Craig White wrote:
> >
> > > As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahe=
ad
> > > 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?
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> /dev/ht0? *ack*, *ack*
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> Use ide-scsi.
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> http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org/ATAPI.html
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> Yes, though, you can dd to and from tape.
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> For that investigate the dump command as well.
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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