From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 7:48:34 2003 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 D365C37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9848943F3F for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:48:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9D69FA2; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:48:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20499FAF; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:48:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:48:22 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Image / Cloning In-Reply-To: <002c01c2b7ef$c3fcda30$0500a8c0@data> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 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 Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike wrote: > Hi All > > What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that > are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy that > install to the others. > > Cheers > > M;) # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 This I use in a cron-job to make an exact copy of my drive every month. You might have to change the ad4 and ad6. You should probably read 'man dd' before using it. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message