Check out the attached scripts.
You can also set fdisk to force a partition definition,
thus allowing the use of completely blank drives.
See the Tape script for an example of this..
Note that the copy ignores certain files/directories that may actually be devices.
You might want to make a scipt that is a combination of tape_install.x and cp_hd01.x
-Paul
Stephen F Terrell <stephen@trsystem.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:937jp7$t7q$1@inn.qnx.com…
Our customer has asked us to supply quick change backup hard disks for the
embedded QNX4 based systems we have supplied. We assume (hope?) this will
not be a problem in terms of the QNX licenses since each license will only
ever run on one hard disk at a time.
We would like to make the backups a true snapshot of each systems rather
than create a fresh installation and load the application software and data
(partially because we are not sure of the true QNX patch level on each
system).
Can anyone advise whether PowerQuests Drive Copy can do this or alternately
recommend another package that could do the same thing.
TIA
Steve
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