From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 28 14:19:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E0D1065670 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691628FC1E for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8SEJI8r037988; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n8SEJI7L037985; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Chris In-Reply-To: <20090928011444.29110022@chris.makeworld.com> Message-ID: References: <20090928011444.29110022@chris.makeworld.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:19 -0000 On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Chris wrote: > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and > restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla uses ntfsclone or partimage, both programs that have built-in knowledge of specific filesystems. ntfsclone, the default, of course only supports NTFS. partimage has had "beta" support for UFS for a while. I don't know how well it works. You'd have to specifically choose partimage instead of ntfsclone in the Clonezilla startup. To get the equivalent of Clonezilla with FreeBSD, you should be able to boot a "livefs" FreeBSD CD and use dump to backup via ssh. There's an example in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html#AEN25814 dump is not terribly fast. A comparison to partimage would be interesting. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA