How to duplicate a diskette

[KnowNix]

I make a backup / duplicate of my HighCapacity (2Mb) Diagnostics Test Diskette

I use :
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/ddcopy
2880+0 records in.
2880+0 records out.

# dd if=/tmp/ddcopy of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in.
2880+0 records out.

Is this a 'real' diskcopy now ? It takes a lot of time to do so, are there other (1-line) commands to do the same ?

thanks, and Happy Cristmas everybody...

 

[sbix]

Yes it's the correct procedure.
I have used in the past also to duplicate DOS diskette.
Just to speed up the copy operation you could specify a bigger block size using the parameter bs=64k
i.e. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.image bs=64k