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image of a harddrive

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Subject: image of a harddrive
From: "cameron charlebois" <cam_charles@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 04:00:08
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
I have an OpenBSD box and a RH 7.0 box running on my LAN. I want to rebuild the OpenBSD, but I want to have a fail safe incase I botch it and need the box back in a hurry. So I thought just do a "dd" of the entire drive and dump the resulting image to the RH 7.0 box. The OpenBSD HD is only 500MB and the RH7.0 has tons of space, (>15gig free). If I do a "dd if=/dev/wd0a of=<need to reference the RH box here>" I get /dev/wdoa is busy. I thought I should boot off of a floppy and do the dd but the question is how do I reference the RH box to dump the image there? The RH box is a fileserver that has Samba running, (no nfs but there is samba).
    Any help would rock!

-Cam
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