From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 15:56:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C4F14DE5 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [168.143.224.52]) by doc.dcoder.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22620; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:56:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:56:24 -0400 (EDT) From: David Coder Reply-To: David Coder To: Jake Ott Cc: Damien Tougas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to clone a hard disk? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before doing the disk copy, make sure to substitute "da1" for all occurrences of "da0" in /etc/fstab. Also, check /boot/defaults/loader.conf to make sure it refers to the right disks. Then, after the copy, change these files back. dc _____________________ David Coder SysAdmin WebHosting Verio.com 703-749-7955 x1314 On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Jake Ott wrote: > Even easier...a device copy. > > cp /dev/da0 /dev/da1 > > Makes an exact copy of the drive. Very cool, however this assumes that > you are useing two of the same drives. Exact same drives. It does a bit > for bit copy of the entire drive. So this copies any boot, diag, or other > kinda weird sectors. > > -Jake > Systems Administrator > Front Range Internet > 970.224.3668 x221 > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Damien Tougas wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message