backing up with dd fails
Kevin Kempter
kevin at kevinkempterllc.com
Mon Nov 20 14:02:51 UTC 2006
Hi list;
I've recently returned to Fedora from SuSE. With SuSE I would always backup my
main laptop hard drive to a second drive via dd as follows:
1) boot into single user mode (init 1)
2) run dd if=/dev/SRC of=/dev/TARGET conv=noerror,sync bs=4k #where SRC =
my current OS drive and TARGET = the backup drive
I tried this yesterday with my new FC6 install. It from about 7:30pm until
7:00am and I saw a message on the screen, something like this:
Firmware error detected, ipw2200, restarting
Any thoughts? I suspect 12 hours is way too slow for a dd of a 100G drive.
With SuSE it took about 3 hours (not that I would ever consider returning to
the new M$ SuSE)
Thanks in advance
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