cloning the A/UX root partition (SUMMARY)

[Francisco X DeJesus]

    Well, after a ton of email and reply posts, this is what I did: To clone
the A/UX root partition (slice 0) from one SCSI drive to another, I used the
following command typed in from A/UX Startup (sash):

dd if=/dev/dsk/cXd0s0 of=/dev/dsk/cYd0s0

    Where X and Y are the source and destination drive's SCSI ID's,
respectively. Since this was run under A/UX Startup, A/UX itself was not
really running so it was doing this from MacOS. It worked great and took
about an hour each time. If the destination drive did not contain A/UX
before doing this, use some kind of partitioning software to make the
necessary A/UX partitions on it (I was using Silverlining). In addition,
and though I was not sure this was necessary, I booted from the "cloning"
drive and made unix file systems on the destination drive's A/UX partitions.

    Another solution proposed to me was using "find -depth -print" in
combination with "cpio" under A/UX itself. Although I did not try it, it
certainly seems it should work, since it gives cpio the recursive listing
of all the files with the full pathnames.

    I received serveral other interesting approaches, but they all involved
being in A/UX or A/UX Startup. I never heard of any MacOS program that would
clone just a partition. A couple of people suggested using the Apple utility
SCSI Cloner, but that would clone and entire drive, not just a partition,
which I couldn't do because I was using at least four different drive sizes.

    Thanks a lot to everyone who responded... there were too many to thank
individually but you know I appreciate your help.
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