From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 13:32:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA27578 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net ([207.14.63.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA27554 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 13:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ashworth.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spacehog.structured.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00402 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <341B067E.5BB24FEB@ashworth.org> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:32:46 -0700 From: Justin Ashworth Reply-To: justin@ashworth.org Organization: Pretty cruddy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk copying Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What is the easiest and most reliable way to copy my data from one hard drive to another? My primary FreeBSD hard drive is doing some funny stuff and I'd like to transfer the data over to a replacement drive without losing anything or having to redo the install. Is there any way I can do this without having to format, partition, etc. manually? Thanks! -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Ashworth, CS Student Montana State University justin@ashworth.org http://www.ashworth.org/justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jones' Second Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.