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From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2006-02-09 18:48, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:
> >Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> Bah!  That's too slow for my taste.  I would usually go for a newfs,
> >> dump, and restore option.  For instance, to create a copy of /usr on
> a
> >> second disk:
> >>
> >>    newfs -U /dev/ad1s1a
> >>    mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
> >>    dump -0 -a -L /usr | ( cd /mnt ; restore ruvf - )
> >>
> >> Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :)
> >
> > Sorry to butt in --- but I'm needing to start cloning too.  Looks
> > like a winner to me ... wouldn't this have the added advantage
> > of making "same size and geometry" (cf. Erik Trulsson, 4 hours ago,
> > this thread) less relevant?
> 
> Yes, this is pretty much the important point :)
> 
> > As long as the "new" slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't
> > matter to dump|restore ....  <?>
> 
> Right :)  It also allows restoring in a different partition layout.
> 

Any chance of there being a way like this to restore to windows systems
from the FreeBSD box?


	

	
		
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