From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 9:57:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.converging.net (edtn002029.hs.telusplanet.net [161.184.135.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1310F1507F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:57:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) Received: from spot (proxy.converging.net [161.184.135.250]) by brutus.converging.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id LAA04195 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:10:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) From: Damien Tougas Reply-To: To: Subject: Is it possible to clone a hard disk? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:59:04 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I want to put a second IDE hard disk in my FreeBSD 3.1 server, and create a clone of the one that currently exists. I thought that this might be a good disaster recovery scheme to use when upgrading my operating system. If any problem occurrs while installing the upgrade, all I have to do is switch the drives to be back to where I was before with minimum downtime. How possible or practical is this? I know that in Windows NT we would use a product such as Norton Ghost, how would I go about creating such a clone in FreeBSD? Thanks, Damien Tougas Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. 10148 - 73 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6A 2W9 Phone: (780) 469-1679 Fax: (780) 461-5127 mailto:dtougas@converging.net http://www.converging.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message