From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 12: 3:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E368537B5A3 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@brwn.org) Received: from brwn.org (grumpy.brwn.org [192.168.1.10]) by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700DC3ACA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 21:03:41 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <3925900D.43B1AD8@brwn.org> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:03:41 +0200 From: Willem Brown Organization: Brwn.ORG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making an Image/cloning a system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You can use "dd" to make a complete clone of the drive, ie. dd if=/dev/wd0 of=cloned.img bs=16k. This is a sector by sector copy of the disc including the mbr and partition info. I think? You should still consider getting a tape drive so that you have more than one backup of the files. Even if the tape is across the network. I do something like that at home using some shell scripts, ssh and tar. Regards Willem Brown http://www.brwn.org/~willem/pubkey.txt -- |--------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message