Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1308165107.fdbca6@skytracker.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying hard drives Message-ID: <800967.38829.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> References: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca>
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=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: David Banning <david+date= d+1308165107.fdbca6@skytracker.ca>=0ATo: questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Fri,= June 10, 2011 3:11:46 PM=0ASubject: copying hard drives=0A=0AI am interest= ed in copying hard drives and would like some feedback.=0A=0A1. I would lik= e a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and=0Astore each on porta= ble hard drive as a single file - so that in the=0Aend I have a large, say = 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating=0Asystem backed up - that can = later be restored.=A0 =0A=0AOne concern I have is that the file saved is un= der a certain generic=0Astandard - I don't want to be in a situation down t= he road where I=0Aneed to restore, but the required software to restore is = defunct.=0AIt would be nice to have the operating system on a stick - so I= =0Acould boot into the program from a clients computer, connect a large=0Ad= rive, and backup their entire drive.=0A=0A2. I'd like a simple way to copy = - my FreeBSD system to another=0Adrive - a clone so to speak - which I know= dd can do - but I wonder=0Aif there is a way to do this so that clone driv= e can be smaller that=0Athe original. My thinking here is that I need to ex= periment with=0Achanges but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy b= ooted=0Afrom a separate machine.=0A________________________________________= _______=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.freebsd= .org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0A=0A=0ALook into G4U...Ghos= t for Unix. It's a free and based on NetBSD. It will clone a =0Adrive, make= images of drives, etc...and you can't beat the price. I've used it =0Asucc= essfully many times.
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