Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:58:29 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a disk. Message-ID: <44440175.6070904@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <000501c66256$90f01340$6401a8c0@GRANT> References: <000501c66256$90f01340$6401a8c0@GRANT>
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Grant Peel wrote: > Hi All, > > I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). > > I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. > > i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another > identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI > connections, so thats not an issue. > > I have a Copy of Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003), or I can use rsync (?). > > Any step by step would be appreciated. > > -Grant This has been hashed out 2-3 times in the last couple of months. Most of the subject lines used the term "clone" or "cloning", though. My strategy: set up a disk with sysinstall (or via CLI with fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs, etc.) and use dump(8) piped to restore(8)...fast, geometry independent. YMMV, Kevin Kinsey -- Mother is the invention of necessity.
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