From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 14:37: 0 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 DF9B937B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil [141.190.102.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D225043E5E for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: by shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (Postfix, from userid 501) id 13D05F80; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:32:32 -1000 (HST) Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD From: Gary Dunn To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: "Bertel, Markus R" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020723115015.011cd350@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020723115015.011cd350@mail.sage-one.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 23 Jul 2002 11:32:32 -1000 Message-Id: <1027459952.32156.19.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > > 23 > >Jul 02 > > > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > > > >Regards > >Markus R Bertel > > > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy > to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? -- Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ Honolulu registered Linux user #273809 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message