From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 17:51:00 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 A1D8D16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:51:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C21A43D48 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:50:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([69.172.31.117]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060214175057.RESK18877.mta10.adelphia.net@barbish>; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:50:57 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" To: "Joe Auty" , Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:50:52 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: best approach to clone a disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:51:00 -0000 I use the Norton ghost program. You have to first install ghost on a window box and then create a ms/dos bootable floppy with ghost on it. Them boot your FreeBSD box with that floppy and ghost image the hard drive with mbr to cdrom or dvd. You can then boot the target box with that same floppy and restore the cdrom/dvd even if the hd is bigger than the source one. Using 2003 version of ghost I first zero out all the free space on FreeBSD so ghost will compress it in the backup image which makes ghost run faster on bkup and restore. dd if=/dev/zero of=/filler bs=1m ; rm /filler dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/filler bs=1m ; rm /tmp/filler dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/filler bs=1m ; rm /usr/filler dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/filler bs=1m ; rm /var/filler Of course this is a hands on method. You have to have physical access to the source and target pc's to do this. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Joe Auty Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:49 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best approach to clone a disk? 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? Thanks in advance! ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"