Subject: Re: re Copying hard drives
To: joseph p bennardo <fordluvr@juno.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/25/2002 15:44:07
yes, two such commands are cat and dd
you could of course trivially cat one device into the other :-)
but with dd, as der mouse pointed out, you can tell it to use a bigger 
chunk size and speed it up notiecably. 

isildur

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, joseph p bennardo wrote:

> I deleted the initial post about copying disks, but if your dealing with
> scsi drives could you simply hang the disks in a regular PC and use a
> copying utility? I'm speaking with a lot of ignorance here, but I would
> imagine if you had a program that would just mirror data, of any sort, it
> would be possible. NO?
> 
> Joe Bennardo
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