Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: backup of DOS partition Date: 27 Oct 1993 11:42:09 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2alja1$31t@Germany.EU.net> References: <1993Oct27.035034.11525@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1993Oct27.035034.11525@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes: |> dd if=/dev/wd0d count=204848 | rsh tapehost dd of=/dev/nrst9 |> This is quite slow; it takes about 45 minutes to complete. Can anybody suggest a |> faster method? You really ought to read a cylinder at a time, not just one block. Give the first dd an ibs=<number-of-cylinders-of-dos-partition>*<blocks-per-cylinder> to speed up things. -Bernard