Subject: Re: Saving a partition locally!
To: Francisco Valladolid Hdez. <ficovh@yahoo.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/30/2007 12:24:15 
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:29AM -0700, Francisco Valladolid Hdez. wrote:
> # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/dev/rwd1a bs=16b seek=1

You can use any file as of= argument, e.g.

# dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/backups/latest.img bs=16b seek=1

(I would suggest a much larger value for bs though, say bs=1m)

Martin