From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 23:43:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5122A37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sante.techgodz.com (mdsnwi13-vlan436-120.dsl.tds.net [66.222.30.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE0743F3F for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sephtin@techgodz.com) Received: from sonic (unknown [192.168.1.100]) by sante.techgodz.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 62D3B3C; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 01:43:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <008c01c32cc0$503290e0$6401a8c0@sonic> From: "John" To: References: <3EDC1DF9.C75BEC7C@chatusa.com><3EDC7E08.1060708@thebigchoice.com> <20030603154126.GB59628@users.munk.nu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 01:44:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: Jez Hancock Subject: Disk copy -- WAS: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my present machine and load itto a new X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 06:43:45 -0000 Actually, I have a similar problem. I would like to take my current FreeBSD system, and essentially IMAGE the entire disk (MBR and all), as a backup, as well as to a new disk. I'd like to upgrade my mail/web/db/imap/webmail/etc. server from a PPro200, to a 933, but I want to keep the drives in the 200 as they are, for quick and easy "backout-plan" purposes. In Windoze, you can use Drive Image, Ghost, various other utils for this. In Linux, you can use PartImage, or other utils for this. Only problem, none of these work for UFS?!? Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't care to spend the half day to a weekend necessary to backup the entire server to the network, reinstall Free on the new drives, and then restore everything.. I'm a lazy admin! :) Can someone point me to doc on the "easy way"? Thoughts? Thanks, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jez Hancock" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my present machine and load itto a new > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:52:56AM +0100, Matt Heath wrote: > > DanB wrote: > > > > >Can you copy freebsd and its configuration from one of my present > > >machine and load it to a new machine so I can do some repairs on it. > > >Maybe copy to a CDR and boot from that. > > > > > >Dan > > > > > > > > sure, for $500 > lol > > Why not just take the disks out and put them in the new machine. If the > partitioning isn't too fancy the system should work without too much > problem. Try doing *that* with a windows system :) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >