Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:17:55 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive Message-ID: <f472e5e3718c5a6ed0a67cc57c3ff21a@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210145047.GA3438@flame.pc> References: <20060210102919.GA1056@flame.pc> <20060210144435.6572.qmail@web60020.mail.yahoo.com> <20060210145047.GA3438@flame.pc>
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: >> --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>>> 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? > > Not really. I'm far from being a Windows expert though, so YMMV. As an image? Look up partimage and partimaged. We've had some luck restoring from both a Linux system running the Partimaged daemon and booting from a Linux disk and restoring images off a samba/Windows share using partimage.
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