Re:
> I'm just wonderin'... I just heard from HP that it could be possible to copy
> a failed (not yet completely crashed) disc by using "dd" after booting from
> a hp-unix cd-rom even on mpe system. Just copy old to new, swap the old disk

That should be possible.

Also, the offline utilities allow you to copy a disk to tape,
and then tape to disk (but not disk-to-disk).

This was discussed a week or three ago...search the archives
for "CLONE" and "sieler" :)

> If this would work than it would be a fast action compared to the full

Yep.


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