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Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive
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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.