From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 16:49:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6270616A422 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [209.67.223.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0177943D48 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8914D7309B for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:49:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00381-07 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:49:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from [129.79.115.14] (jauty.journalism.indiana.edu [129.79.115.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75097303E for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:49:06 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> From: Joe Auty Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:49:05 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: best approach to clone a disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:08 -0000 Okay, In taking the advice of an earlier poster in suggesting that the instructions located here: http://www.unixcities.com/howto/ Are rather old, allow me to make my question a little broader in scope: What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? Do you have any step- by-step instructions? The instructions I used above (even replacing the restore -r flag with a -x) produced a core dump. Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend Ghost for Unix? Any other suggestions or recommendations should the dump command just not work for me? Thanks in advance! ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org