Re: life of CF card
Thomas Isenbarger <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcmips |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>> I have a Powerbook with a PC card slot and an appropriate adapter for >> my CF card. Does anyone have a good solution for backing up a CF >> card using a Mac, for instance, writing the contents of the CF card >> to a file on my Powerbook in some way? > > Hopefully, the device is accessible via /dev/wd.. or something > similar. If you > know which device fd to use, you can simply `cat /dev/wd0 | gzip > > backup.gz`. > But that means that, in order to restore your backup, you really > ought to > restore it to a CF card that is completely identical to the card > your backup > came from. Otherwise, you will need to figure out how to mount the > card and tar > up the filesystem. I don't know the BSDs all that well, and > probably couldn't > give you advice on how to do that sort of thing. Does anyone else have any good backup solutions? Thanks, isen