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fastcopy(8)

NAME

fastcopy − copies one file system to another - standalone utility

SYNOPSIS

fastcopy

DESCRIPTION

fastcopy will copy one file system to another. A file system is defined by a three letter device name, a controller number, a drive number, a partition number and a bus number.  dsk(0,0,0,0), means: copy from disk, controller 0, drive 0, partition 0, and bus 0. 

USER INTERFACE

Boot
fastcopy <CR>
Source device :
(write the source file system, like dsk(0,0,0,0) or mt(0,0,0,0))
Copy to device
(write the output file system, as above)
Number of blocks
(make sure it is big enough to get to the end)

fastcopy will print the block size:

Block size from input = 10 kbytes

And then will report progress every 25 transfers.  In the end, fastcopy will print number of blocks copied:

Total of ## blocks copied

 

CX/UX Administrator’s Reference

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