copy raw device file to remote server

[Camel_1]

Hi there,

Is it possible to copy raw device file from one server to another server thru network?

Thanks,

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Why not?? With backup products that support backups of raw devices. Also you can use combination of dd and rcp/scp

something like follows.

dd if=raw_file bs=1024k | rcp host_name "cat - | dd of=some_file bs=1024k"

Anil

[Roland Piette]

Hi,

I suppose that RAC wants to say remsh in place of rcp.

Regards
Roland

[Suraj Singh_1]

To put it simply:

# dd if=/dev/rdsk/cxtydz of=dev.dd bs=1024k
# scp dev.dd root@other_host_name:/dir_name
# remsh other_host_name -l root "dd if=/dir_name/dev.dd of=/dev/rdsk/cxtydz bs=1024k"

Rgds

[Steven E. Protter]

Two ways I know of:

dd command

I did a complete Ignite system transfer and had usable raw data on the end client.

How and why the ignite thing worked is still a mystery to me.

SEP