From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 17:16:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3445416A422 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:16:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [209.67.223.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC7343D66 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:16:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AC6730B7; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00643-05; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [129.79.115.14] (jauty.journalism.indiana.edu [129.79.115.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A4F730A4; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200602141104.08683.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> References: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> <200602141104.08683.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Message-Id: <906E967F-B5A7-46FF-AD22-1B1F44A90C70@netmusician.org> From: Joe Auty Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:34 -0500 To: Don Hinton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:16:41 -0000 On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Don Hinton wrote: > Hi Joe: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:49, Joe Auty wrote: >> Okay, >> >> In taking the advice of an earlier poster in suggesting that the >> instructions located here: >> >> http://www.unixcities.com/howto/ >> >> Are rather old, allow me to make my question a little broader in >> scope: >> >> What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? Do you have any >> step- >> by-step instructions? The instructions I used above (even replacing >> the restore -r flag with a -x) produced a core dump. >> >> Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend Ghost >> for Unix? Any other suggestions or recommendations should the dump >> command just not work for me? > > One of our grad students recently posted a how to on using Frisbee > here at > ISIS. The only difference is that you'll need another server > somewhere with > imagezip install instead of ours. You can find the how to here: > > https://research.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ir_wiki/ > Using_Frisbee_to_take_an_image_of_a_hard_drive > > Please let us know if it contains any omissions or errors and we'll > fix the > page. Btw, I've been told that this will only image a partition, > not the > master boot record, so you'll need that on the destination as well. > > This is what emulab uses to image drives, and works for several OS's, > including FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. > > hth... > don Thanks Don! However, I'm not completely sure that I have the disk space available to create an image. I was actually looking to do a complete copy of one local disk to another local disk, not create an image of the disk for deployment. Do these instructions still apply? ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org