On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:24 +1100 > Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My 20G disk copies in 2 hours and 40 minutes. I've experimented with > > Mine took 15 minutes for 6.4Gb. (athlon 1700+, dma4 disks) > > Why do people dd disks anyway.
In my case it's my backup method, so duplicates are in fact the idea in the first place. > There's a few pitfalls > such as duplicate serial numbers, duplicate mac addresses. > (yes, sometimes mac addresses are stored in file base configuration) > > tar/dump/cpio are faster and more flexible. dd gets any partition changes I've made. I'm using PartitionMagic, and slowly shrinking my Window$ partition, and occassionally making other changes. > > Matt > ps. i had a specific data recovery purpose in my exercise Me too. Cheers, Bret -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
