dd support 10GB slice size?

[Atif Munir]

Hello,


dd command supports 10GB of slice size to take backup?

Regards,
Atif

[Anthony Mandic]

Atif Munir wrote:

> dd command supports 10GB of slice size to take backup?

dd is a poor way to do backups.

-am © 2003

[Axel Neumann]

"Atif Munir" <atifch@webcarriers.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> dd command supports 10GB of slice size to take backup?
>
> Regards,
> Atif

Hi,

The dd command is the "Swiss knife" for system administrators. It support
anything that can be accessed anyhow by the OS it is running on.

For backup you should use a real backup tool like cpio, tar, ufsdump, or
other.

HTH,

Axel Neumann

[Atif Munir]

Hello,

I am using Solaris 2.6 and wants to upgrade it to Solaris 8.

Atif
"Axel Neumann" <Axel.Neumann@epost.de> wrote in message news:<bfrret$i2brt$1@ID-55633.news.uni-berlin.de>...

> "Atif Munir" <atifch@webcarriers.com> wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > dd command supports 10GB of slice size to take backup?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Atif

>
> Hi,
>
> The dd command is the "Swiss knife" for system administrators. It support
> anything that can be accessed anyhow by the OS it is running on.
>
> For backup you should use a real backup tool like cpio, tar, ufsdump, or
> other.
>
> HTH,
>
> Axel Neumann