Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:40:58 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghost-ing a ufs+vinum disk Message-ID: <20021226031058.GB34497@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net> References: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net>
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On Wednesday, 25 December 2002 at 11:22:56 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > 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. What's wrong with tar? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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