At 09:28 PM 02/04/03 -0500, you wrote:
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:38, William J.A. Brillinger wrote: > Hi! > > What are the ramifications of using dd to make a duplicate of hda to hdb on > a live RaQ4? > I have used dd to load new drives from a running system, then taken the dd'd drive and installed it in another system, worked great! Gerald
no concerns about data in a live database getting screwed?ie: data at the beginning AND end of a file changing before the file has completed getting written to the other drive.
Or does dd lock files as it goes? - Bill --------------------------------- William J.A. Brillinger Precision Design Co. E-Mail: mailto:billy@xxxxxxxxxx Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net