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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: backup of DOS partition
Date: 27 Oct 1993 11:42:09 +0100
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In article <1993Oct27.035034.11525@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes:
|> dd if=/dev/wd0d count=204848 | rsh tapehost dd of=/dev/nrst9
|> This is quite slow; it takes about 45 minutes to complete.  Can anybody suggest a
|> faster method?

You really ought to read a cylinder at a time, not just one block.
Give the first dd an
ibs=<number-of-cylinders-of-dos-partition>*<blocks-per-cylinder>
to speed up things.

-Bernard