From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 14:43:34 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 CE8F537B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 401A743E4A for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertank@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 21754 invoked by uid 417); 21 Nov 2002 22:08:30 -0000 Received: from slide-.softhome.net (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.2.21) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 21 Nov 2002 22:08:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 417) by softhome.net with local; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:13:20 -0700 From: ertank@softhome.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk copying Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:13:20 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: ertank@softhome.net X-Originating-IP: [212.252.6.204] Message-ID: 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 Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it possible to use "cp"? In this way I supposed to create my partitions before and mount them under some partition and just "cp -Rp / /newdisk" but Won't it start to copy the data recursively when copying reachs /newdisk? Just curious. Regards, -- Ertan Kucukoglu ertank@softhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message