dump and restore

[Peter Boosten]

Hi all,

My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, 
but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on 
the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the 
original to the new partitions by using:

dump 0af - /dev/ad2s1[adef] | restore xf -

(the partitions adef where done one by one)

The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 
seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine 
on different IDE controllers.

Is it normal for a backup/restore to take this long? Or could this be 
due to my failing disk?

Peter

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