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SCO, SCO-unix (x86), 5.0, Compaq proliant 1600 w/ 9 GB

Zone: SCO Unix

Tags: SCO, SCO-unix (x86), 5.0, Compaq proliant 1600 w/ 9 GB

What is the best way to duplicate a 9GB to another for replacement of the SCO unix disk in a single disk system?

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Question Asked By: kevincent

Solution Provided By: JustUNIX

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: A

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01.28.2008 at 01:40AM PST, ID: 20757776

JustUNIX:

If you have two (physically) identical disk drives, you may use "dd" to copy
from one disk to another.
Something like this should do the trick:
dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=/dev/rhd10 bs=8192k
Replace rhd00 and rhd10 with the correct names for your first (source) and
second (target) hard disk, respectively.
The naming scheme for SCO disk drives is
[r]hdxy
where a leading "r" denotes the disk drive as a raw-device, x is the drive
number (starting from 0) and y the partition number (0 is the whole disk).

If you want to swap the original drive by a different (preferrably larger) one,
you will have to copy the filesystems one by one and also have to make
sure that the boot blocks get being transferred.
a) Partition you new (target) disk using SCO's fdisk
b) Create the filesystems as needed
c) Install the boot blocks on your new disk
# instbb hd /dev/hd0a
d) To transfer the data, you may use tar or cpio.
Mount the new disk's root filesystem under /mnt
# mount /dev/hd11 /mnt
and create the mount points for any other filesystems
# mkdir /mnt/usr /mnt/export /mnt/whatever
Now, mount all the other filesystems
# mount /dev/hd14 /mnt/usr
. . .
Using tar, you will run a command like this:
# cd /
# tar cf - . | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvf - )

Accepted Solution

01.29.2008 at 03:55AM PST, ID: 20766961

kevincent:

Thank You for your response. I ran the dd command as follows:
dd if=/dev/dsk/0s0 of=/dev/dsk/1s0 and the process ran over 21 hours without completing. I interupted it with a ctrl alt del and got a statement about the number of in / out records. I then swapped the drive slots (moved id 1 to id 0 slot and booted the system sucessfully. I would like to be able to do a disk to disk "backup" each Saturday using this method. Just wish the commnad would complete. These drives are scsi 9.1Gb disks with barely 2Gb used space. And comments would be welcome.

01.29.2008 at 06:13AM PST, ID: 20767866

mikelfritz:

put the bs=8192 , or maybe higher.

the default block size is far too small for disk to disk.

Assisted Solution

01.29.2008 at 08:04AM PST, ID: 20768996

JustUNIX:

try to enlarge the size of the copy buffer to 128 KB)
bs=131072k
You may try even larger block sizes.

Ideally, you would use the size of a whole track of your disk

Assisted Solution

01.29.2008 at 08:06AM PST, ID: 20769028

JustUNIX:

One warning notice: If you "dd" from a live system disk to another disk you may get
file system inconsistencies as data gets changed during copy !!
Make sure to run at least a "fsck" on the copied file systems on your target drive.

Assisted Solution

01.30.2008 at 01:13AM PST, ID: 20775675

burrcm:

Identical drives? Ghost will do it perfectly well.

Chris B

01.30.2008 at 05:05AM PST, ID: 20776613

kevincent:

I tried ghost, the compaq array controller driver was not available on the ghost distribution cd for SCO. I have not been able to find it. And being a sco/unix newbee i don't know the commands to do simple stuff like copy and such.

01.30.2008 at 05:06AM PST, ID: 20776621

kevincent:

Wgat syntax would i use to FSCK the drive that i copied? Assume it is /dev/dsk/1s0.

01.30.2008 at 05:35AM PST, ID: 20776828

JustUNIX:

# fsck -y /dev/dsk/1s0 (but this is only one partition / file system)
If you have more than one file system youwill have to do it for all of them

Assisted Solution

01.30.2008 at 06:52AM PST, ID: 20777397

kevincent:

I took the default 5 partitions on the disk and bielieve I only have two filesystems: /dev/root and /dev/boot

01.30.2008 at 06:54AM PST, ID: 20777418

kevincent:

RE:
try to enlarge the size of the copy buffer to 128 KB)
bs=131072k
You may try even larger block sizes.

Ideally, you would use the size of a whole track of your disk

How can I find the size of a whole track? The geometry of the disk is as follows: Cyls=1106 hds=255 sectors=63

01.30.2008 at 09:37AM PST, ID: 20779032

JustUNIX:

calculate size in bytes: number-of-heads * sectors-per-track * size-of-sector

255 * 63 * 512

This looks like a LBA setting -- not the real physical characteristics of the drive, though.

Assisted Solution

02.12.2008 at 12:57PM PST, ID: 20878894

kevincent:

so be it

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