Hi, I am sorry for the late Summary, but I didn't came up with what satisfied me. First thanks to all those who replied to my questions, most of them has recommended to use the dd command as follows : Dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=1024 The problem is that this command is strongly preferred to be run in single mode, and my machine is a productive system, fortunately , our system is redundant , so we took the machine offline and inserted another disk in the same machine and started imaging each slice after the other. The process took a very long time, maybe over the 12 hours, if you know that my hard disk is only 18GB . This is not applicable for live productive system also there is no indication of what is going on and how much time it might take , of course you can use this command to monitor what is going on if you run this command in level 3 mode : truss -p process_id After a long time , we have removed the hard disk and inserted it in the other machine, and every thing goes as expected successfully. My question , is there a similar command could be run to do the same job [creating and exact image] while the system is running ? is the best to used ufsdumb and restore, or there is something better that that ? Regards, Ali Almutawa -----Original Message----- From: Ali Almutawa [mailto:aamutawa@batelco.com.bh] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:35 PM To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' Subject: disk replication Guru's , What is the best way to replicate a hard disk to another one. I have one machine that I need to copy the whole image and dumps it to another new disk and use it on another machine, and I need to see a replica of the original machine, what is the best way to do that. Thanks in advance. Regards, Ali Almutawa [ NI2 ] MCSE CCNA CCSA CCSE SCSA SCNA STC Systems Management Office : 00973 883474 Mobile : 00973 9688797 Fax : 00973 9103474 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Apr 3 17:22:17 2002
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