From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 14:48:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC72D16A401 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [192.160.51.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F3B43D45 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:48:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with SMTP id k2VEmR6K020946 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:48:27 -0500 Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89826BEFB for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:48:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from imcfe2.MITRE.ORG (imcfe2.mitre.org [129.83.29.4]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2VEmPxW020804; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:48:25 -0500 Received: from IMCSRV2.MITRE.ORG ([129.83.20.164]) by imcfe2.MITRE.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:48:24 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:48:22 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: cloning a FreeBSD HDD Thread-Index: AcZT/UhJPC+nE/tOTTepNWTygci+tQA1Dqcg From: "Andresen, Jason" To: "Patrick Tracanelli" , "John-Mark Gurney" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2006 14:48:24.0571 (UTC) FILETIME=[29AD0CB0:01C654D2] Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cloning a FreeBSD HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:48:29 -0000 One further thing you might want to consider is a project out of the University of Utah called Emulab. I've been using the free client on there to dump and restore disks for a couple of years now. The advantage over dump/restore and especially dd is that it's _fast_. On my systems here I can get a GB or two per minute (admittedly over Gigabit ethernet). =20 Also, it's designed to work over the network, making it easy to store your filesystem dumps on a central repository. =20 http://www.emulab.net/