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From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: volcopy and dd questions
Keywords: backup archive volcopy dd
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Date: 22 Feb 91 01:39:47 GMT
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Organization: The Lafayette Group, St. Louis, MO.
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I would be interested in some insight as to the strengths and
weaknesses of volcopy and dd. What will volcopy do for me
that I cannot accomplish with dd? Also, does volcopy make a
copy of the superblock? I believe dd does when if=some_filesystem.
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