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From: rrg@ibism.UUCP (Renato Ghica)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Disk Backups
Keywords: Volume copy
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Date: 3 May 91 18:47:38 GMT
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Can any kind soul tell me the best way to make a physical copy of a 
disk (including all the filesystems on it ?) to another disk ?

tar seems to have problems copying files in /dev, and if there are disks
mounted with mountpoints on /, then the contents of those disks get
copied as well. 

dd only lets me do one partition at the time

I don't have volcopy on my SPARCstation ver 4.1.1

Being from the VMS world, I was hoping to find something similar to the
"BACKUP/IMAGE command", or a shadowing/mirroring implementation thereof.

Thanks...



HELP !
 
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