Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:51:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To: knowtree@aloha.com (Gary Dunn)
Cc: jackstone@sage-one.net (Jack L. Stone), markus.r.bertel@lmco.com (Bertel Markus R), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ('freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG')
Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD
Message-ID: <200207241351.g6ODpJ808092@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1027459952.32156.19.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> from "Gary Dunn" at Jul 23, 2002 11:32:32 AM
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> > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: > > At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > > > 23 > > >Jul 02 > > > > > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > > > > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > > >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > > >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > > >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > > >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > > > > > >Regards > > >Markus R Bertel > > > > > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy > > to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). > > What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I > use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? How are they normally mounted? Use that or preferably either raid mirroring for a complete mirror or dump/restore for backups. ////jerry > > -- > > Gary Dunn > Open Slate Project > http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ > Honolulu > registered Linux user #273809 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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