From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 9:23:53 2002 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 2F9A537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 223C943EA9 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 21423 invoked by uid 1014); 25 Dec 2002 17:22:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:22:56 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ghost-ing a ufs+vinum disk Message-ID: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am looking for a method to dump my 'current' installation (which includes couple of vinum volumes + some other normal UFS partitions) to another machine where I have access to a CDR. I don't want to dump the entire HDD, but only the used sectors/files. If you are familiar with Norton Ghost running from a boot floppy uploading contents to a Ghost server, that's exactly what I am trying to achieve. Norton Ghost seems to 'support' UFS, but it merely dumps every sector of a hard disk - not really what I want to achieve. BTW, I don't have hotswapable drives and such. So using vinum itself to make a spare disk is not an option. I don't mind temporarily rebooting the machine on to a different OS/disk to do this backup. Any help is appreciated. -- Hari Bhaskaran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message