Re: Backup USB Drive

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:26:15 +0200
Pierrick Brossin <pierrick%bs-network.net@localhost> wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:44:01 +0200
> > Pierrick Brossin <pierrick%bs-network.net@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a USB stick that boots NetBSD 4.0
> >> I want to make a backup of it. Using DD maybe ?
> >>
> >> I tried to do so, using DD but when I DD'ed the other way the stick
> >> was not bootable anymore.
> >>
> >> How can I backup my USB Stick ?
> >>
> >>     
> > What partition did you dd?  Is this i386?
> >   
> 
> Shame on me. I tried DD under Windows. So that was probably only one 
> partition.
> Can I DD the raw device to backup the whole stick ?
> 
Probably.  On i386, use sd0d, the whole-disk partition, I think.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb