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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:27:07 -0500
From: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>
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Subject: Re: CD backup of client "appliances"?
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:27:13PM +0200, Tim Priebe wrote:
> 
> You should be able to fit the image of a freshly installed system on a large
> drive on to a cdrom, just do something like
> 
> dd if=/dev/wd0 bs=1024000|gzip - >file

Assume the drives are different sizes.  Assume the geometry is different.
Here's a quick start, feel free to poke holes in it or fill in unknowns:

# Read and save all information about this disk
cd $client_name
set DISK=da0 (or wd0)
# what command to read to determine how many slices on the disk?
foreach slice ( ??)
   # Make a copy of this disklabel
   disklabel -r ${DISK}${slice} > label.${DISK}.${slice}
   foreach partition (a b c d e f g h)
      # Read each partition.  Should we use a blocksize here?
      if (fstype from disklabel == '4.2BSD') 
	 dd if=/dev/r${DISK}${slice}${partition} | gzip -9 > r${DISK}${slice}${partition}.dd.gz
	 endif
      end
   end
# Make a copy of the boot code.  How?
# What did we forget?
# Make this into a .iso file


# Write the saved information out to a new drive
cd $client_name
# Get the disk name from the directory.
# How do we get virgin disk geometry?
# Using the info in label.${DISK}.* insure that the new disk is at least 
#   as large as the old one.  If larger, put the extra sectors into a new
#   slice.  If smaller, fail with an error.
# Install all slices (how?)
# label the disk, dealing with alternate geometry
# gunzip and dd each partition out to the drive
# Restore the boot code (how?)
# What did we forget?

OK, now we just need some ofthe blanks filled in :-)

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