topic Re: disk cloning by dd command in Operating System - HP-UX

disk cloning by dd command

sarfaraj ahmad — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:06:31 GMT

i had started backup through dd command but after some hours my session timed out and disconnected.
now how can i know that backup is completed successfully or not?
is there any log message where these information stores?
i have checked already /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, /var/mail/root and dmesg, but nothing found.
can anybody tell me how can i confirm about the backup.
thanks.

Re: disk cloning by dd command

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:41:30 GMT

Shalom,

Safe thing to assume without data is the backup failed. If you need it and its not there the disappointment will be large.

What you can do is this:

Scripted backup

dd command
rc=$?
# This is a return code. zero means successful.
if [ $rc -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Backup succeeded"
else
echo "Backup failed"
fi

SEP

Re: disk cloning by dd command

Dennis Handly — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:40:22 GMT

>my session timed out and disconnected.

I suppose it could have worked but the stderr output indicating any issues was lost. You could redirect the output and use nohup to put it in the background.

>is there any log message where these information stores?

Only to your terminal, if you didn't redirect it.

>can anybody tell me how can i confirm about the backup.

dd(1) isn't really a backup utility, it is a raw copying command.
It's not like there is a length on the target so you can see how much was copied.

Re: disk cloning by dd command

sarfaraj ahmad — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:41:19 GMT

thank you very much for your reply.