There are two schools of thought for how to clone drives under unix. The quick and dirty method is via the unix command dd. This is a bit for bit copy tool So it can even copy master boot records and partition tables. But it also copys empty space and kinda requires the drives be identical. Since it's rare to actually have identical drives I'm going to show you how to use other system tools available under IRIX and Solaris to accomplish this task ask well as even make the new cloned drives better. We start with Solaris. Not much has...

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