Re: How long does DD take? 180GB?

From: Denice DEATRICH (deatrich_at_lthipc5)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: 8 Oct 2003 10:51:35 +0200

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> writes:

>Frank Burns wrote:

>> I had a 360GB RAID (2 X WD 1800JB) and one of the harddrives started
>> acting funny, and thus my RAID went offline. So I got 2 replacement
>> drives, and I am in the process of using DD to copy the entire
>> harddrive to the replacement harddive, (X 2) and hopefully, I will
{snip}

>*WHY* are you copying them this way? Why not partition the new RAID
>array, create a file system, and use something like "tar" or "rsync" to
>duplicate the data?

>Doing this by duplicating every byte is like replacing every space on a
>web page with "&nbsp;": it's an amazingly long waste of your time and
>gains you nothing.

I would agree. On the other hand, copying windows partitions this way is
something that is definitely _not_ a waste of time. It can be surprisingly
useful..

180GB, though, wow, that's unimaginably horrible.
 cheers,
  denice 

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