Well, to me the point of using DD is to save everything in one file: filesystem, boot sectors, etc. Otherwise I'd probobly use dump, as someone else suggested, or other backup tool. Saving additional info [MBR, PBR] is not a problem, you can always restore your system using 'skip' parameter [skipping MBR info]. That'd make you go
Dnia nie, 6 lis 2011, 18:00:45 Bambero pisze: > Thanks, but without skip=1 dd will copy partition table and mbr too > (first block 521b). > So it may damage my partition table on second machine. I'm I wrong ? > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Marc Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> dd if=/dev/wd0a of=root.img bs=32m [or compress it using: dd >> if=/dev/wd0a bs=32m | gzip > root.img.gz] >> >> and >> >> dd if=root.img of=/dev/wd0a bs=32m [decompression: gzip -d -c >> root.img.gz | dd of=/dev/wd0a bs=32m] >> >> And yes, you can ommit additional values. >> >> Dnia piD , 4 lis 2011, 17:43:28 Bambero pisze: >>> Hello >>> >>> I want to copy my root partition to another with dd without ssh. Is >>> this correct: >>> >>> 1. On first machine: >>> dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=root.img bs=16b skip=1 conv=noerror >>> >>> 2. On second machine: >>> dd if=root.img of=/dev/rwd0a bs=16b seek=1 >>> >>> May/should I ommit seek, skip, conv, bs parameters ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bambero
