I solved my problem. Just gave it some time.
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Originally Posted by
adelsin
First of all, the purpose of using "dd" is to completely image the drive, directly from one to another without the use of single user mode or an interim media.
What do you mean without single user mode ? Is the source drive mounted and in use ?
Yes. The source drive is indeed mounted and in use. As it was the acting operating system.
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Thanks to jlliagre, I was able to make it mountable. I'm currently waiting on the dd command to finish up. It's been running for awhile. What time should I expect on an otherwise idle server?
That obviously depends on the disk size and the i/o performance.
It was about 1-2 hours on a V210 with 2Gb of RAM and 4g swap.
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dd stays at about .27% of use. Not too much of a variant.
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That was Total Percentage of processor consumption based on the application "top"
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Sidebar: I plan on using ufsdump/restore in the future when I have an interim media (SAN) to store the fssnap's and when there's a need for incremental backups.
Ufsdum can do full backups.
Yes I know. But after this image, I would need only incredmental backups.
Thanks for all of your help and I hope that this assists others in the future.
-Adel