From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 03:36:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 1DF9B16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.romat.com (mail.romat.com [212.143.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A91F43D3F for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 03:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilad_bsd@romat.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DBAEB2B2; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:36:11 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.romat.com ([192.168.1.10]) by localhost (ladon.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40216-04; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:36:10 +0200 (IST) Received: from romat.com (unknown [192.168.1.199]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B262EB2B1; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:36:10 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <400A6E8B.2090009@romat.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:31:23 +0200 From: Gilad Rom Organization: Romat Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hoover References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com><20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz><20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> <400A25ED.4060408@romat.com> <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> In-Reply-To: <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:36:15 -0000 Stephen Hoover wrote: > I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time > to time. > > I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my > current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop > with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a > sector copy on each individual harddrive. > > All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one > I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and > work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the > harddrives were slightly bigger. > > Just thought this was some good information for the list. > > Stephen Hoover > Dallas, Texas > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Just out of curiousity - How long does it take for ghost to replicate the disk? I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks (2x20GB, EIDE, UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes. Gilad.