to clone geli flash drive ...

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:09:29AM +0300, Zeus V Panchenko wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> is there way to clone dedicated geli configured flash drive?
> 
> i mean something like this:
> 
> 1. plug in geli configured dedicated flash drive to be clonned 
>    (it detects lets say da0)
> 2. plug in new flash drive to clone p.1 drive to 
>    (it detects lets say da1)
> 3. dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=10240 conv=sync
> 4. geli attach -k <the_same_key_used_for_p1_device> /dev/da1s1
> 
> i was trying and it has no effect, geli unattacheble and data is
> corrupted :(
> 
> am i wrong to think it is possible somehow?

It should be possible. Could you provide the output of:

	# geli dump /dev/da0s1 | head
	# geli dump /dev/da1s1 | head
	# diskinfo -v /dev/da[01]s1

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