From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 19:11: 3 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 D98B037B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941C443EC2 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 559E95194A; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:40:58 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:40:58 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hari Bhaskaran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghost-ing a ufs+vinum disk Message-ID: <20021226031058.GB34497@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 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