[SunHELP] Cloning drives

Tom Stockton sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 6 09:59:34 CDT 2001


On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Big Endian wrote:

> I have two *IDENTICAL* ultra 10s.  I need them to have the same 
> everything so what I did is is setup the first machine and then I 
> need to clone this disk.  What is the best way to do this?  dd slice 
> three?  ufsdump|ufsrestore?  any suggestions are welcome.

You need to copy slice 2 as this is defined as the whole disk.

# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 bs=63k

Target and controller will vary as required, not sure about the blocksize
though, can anybody clarify the usage here?

Tom




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