From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 13:50:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDD737B408 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f7NKogR06524; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108232050.f7NKogR06524@ptavv.es.net> To: "default" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PowerQuest Partition Magic proggy... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:01:46 CDT." Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:50:42 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "default" > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:01:46 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > I was just wanted some input from users out there familiar with running > Partition Magic (or particularly Disk Copy) on a FreeBSD machine... > > I am considering running backups using Disk Copy, and just wanted to know > how one would get this working on a FreeBSD machine... > > Will it work if one just compiles the ability to read DOS partitions into > the kernel? ... Or does one even need that? Why not use dd? It will copy any partition and does not care at all about partition type. My weekly "backup" consists of: dd bs=32k if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/dev/ad2s1 dd bs=32k if=/dev/ad0s2 of=/dev/ad2s2 ad0s1 is a FAT32 partition and ad0s2 is FreeBSD. The resultant disk is bootable (either Windows or FreeBSD). For obvious reasons I boot into single user mode before running this script. No need to mount anything, except that the root partition is mounted RO. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message