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From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:37:07 -0800
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Subject: RE: Snapshots - can we use is for cloning disk(full restore to a
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Iantcho Vassilev
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:46 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Snapshots - can we use is for cloning disk(full 
> restore to a newhard disk)

> Guys, i searched the web and the mailing lists about this 
> topic,but i really didn`t find any interesting thing..
> Can i use the snapshots for full restore and if yes how can 
> we do that?
> 
> The part that everyone is referring to the snapshots is the 
> fcsk you can run
> on it while the filesystem is working also..

You ought to be able to clone a partition from a snapshot via backup
(from the snapshot) | restore (to another disk).  Doing this for every
partition should clone the FreeBSD system as of the snapshot.  I've
never tried it, however, and I'd be interested in hearing from someone
who has done it successfully.

-gayn

Bristol Systems Inc.
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