From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 22 6:29:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733AA37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E03743F93 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:29:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1METsQb030382 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:29:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Symantec Ghost-like app for UFS? Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:31:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030217190503.0626c2d8@globalpc.net> <3E519CC9.3020702@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I tried g4u on a LINUX ext3 box on a 3ware card and it worked like a champ! Win2k test is next. The fact that it has 3ware drivers is what makes it very useful for me! I am sure it will work just great for = FreeBSD As for FreeBSD, really, the dump | restore combo is probably what you are after. Put the new HD in your old machine, partition and disklabel. Make sure you make the disk bootable by installing the boot loader. Also, = this way you can size the new partitions to values you feel are appropriate = for the new presumably bigger drive. Then, dump and restore cd /usr;dump -0f - /usr | (cd /mnt/new-usr; restore -rf - )=20 cd /;dump -0f - / | (cd /mnt/new-slash; restore -rf - )=20 and so on. Note, if you are using a recent STABLE, try -C 24. This should speed it = up a bit if the file system is not being written to at the time. cd /usr;dump -C 24 -0f - /usr | (cd /mnt/new-usr; restore -rf - )=20 With this latter method, if you are doing a lot of drives, you could = script it, and use something like a firewire IDE enclosure to hot swap the = drives. ---Mike On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:33:53 +0530, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you = wrote: >Pierre-Luc Lesp=E9rance wrote: >> Adrian Gonzalez wrote: >>=20 >>> >>> Is there anything out there that resembles Symantec Ghost but works=20 >>> with FreeBSD partitions? >>> >>> Basically I want to be able to transfer a FreeBSD installation from = an=20 >>> old hard drive to a new one without having to reinstall, reconfigure,= =20 >>> etc. > >Ghost for unix is what you are looking for. > >http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ > >Try and tell us ur experience > >Regards > >Aravind Balasubramanian > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net)=09 http://www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message