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From: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata)
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Subject: Re: cloning the A/UX root partition
Keywords: clone A/UX partition SCSI
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.194542.23087@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:45:42 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.025055.1029@ni.umd.edu> steveg@ni.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
>In article <6962@rex.cs.tulane.edu> dejesus@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
>>
>>    Is there any program out there (preferably under MacOS) that can do an
>>image copy of an entire SCSI partition, from one drive to another?
>>[deleted]
>
>Yes.. you can use dd.  Although I have never done it from sash, sash does have
>dd and thus.. why wouldn't it work.. :)
>
>Just make sure all of your drives are low level formatted and type this from
>sash.
>	dd if=/dev/dsk/cxd0s31 of=/dev/dsk/cyd0s31 bs=512k
>where x is the source scsi id and y is the destination scsi id.
>
>As far as I remember, this copies the entire deal.. MacOS, p-map, eschatology,
>UNIX, etc.. so after that, you should be good to go..
>

Just remember when using dd, the source disk and the destination
disk has be the same model hard disk or the image will not work.

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