cloning a FreeBSD HDD

[Patrick Tracanelli]

>> I heard its faster if you use two dd's; i.e:
>>
>>    # dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=64k | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k
>>
>> allowing read and write to proceed in parallel.
> 
> 
> that's what ddd and 'team' are for.
> I don't know if ddd is in the ports as it may clash inname with teh 
> debugger ddd
> They internally fork and use several processes synchronised in some manner.

Isn't dump+restore and a couple of fdisk+bsdlabel trick to copy the 
source partitioning a better choice to "clone" this HDD?

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Patrick Tracanelli

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