In message <9904289253.AA925314348@houston-cc-smtp.hai.com>, "Jackson Scott D."
 writes:
>I am new to the list.  I am using VA Research PCs with Pentium Boards.  I have
> a
>SCSI harddrive running NETBSD 1.2 for a government project.  I would like to
>copy the complete contents (O/S and application) to another identical size SCS
>I
>harddrive that is currently running WIN NT.  What is the best approach to
>perform this task?  Basically, I want both harddrives running the same thing s
>o
>I can have a backup system ready to run in case the primary goes bad.  Your
>comments are appreciated.

If it's *really* identical, put the new drive in the machine with a higher
SCSI id, boot single user, and
	dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=64k
and sit back for a little while.

I actually used this on a box I wanted to ship with mirrored drives.  Works
great.

-s