Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:00 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com>, questions-list freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102151047090.16496@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de> References: <AANLkTinaPn50-vUigoj_d=optGqxj4NDFoN9=RvTxcpX@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102150820500.15948@wonkity.com> <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Warren Block wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: >> >>> On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and >>> it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). >>> >>> On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then >>> delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the >>> entire drive. >> >> Some of the development versions of Clonezilla do understand UFS. It's >> been a few months since I looked at this, and I need to go back and >> figure out exactly which. > > I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast > copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a > partition pretending that it did the entire slice. > > Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? AFAIR, yes, and a restore seemed okay afterwards. But again, that was months ago, and details have already become fuzzy.
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