From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 1: 3:12 2002 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 67A9937B404 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0007443E6E for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@radecom.nl) Received: from w1 (baestie.xs4all.nl [213.84.191.44]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id gAF934nD031791; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:03:07 +0100 (CET) From: "R. Zoontjens" To: "Jack L. Stone" , "Matthew Emmerton" , Subject: RE: restore question Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:10:24 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021114195745.01099888@mail.sage-one.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Jack L. Stone wrote: > There IS a program similar to Ghost with respect to making an image. It's > called "dd" and it's already installed on your FBSD system. Run "man 1 dd" > for options. > > Bear in mind that if you want an image of your whole disk, you'll need the > 2nd one to be at least equal in size, but you will lose any part > of the 2nd > HD that is larger than HD #1 (I think Ghost does that too -- or used to). > dd can be limited to imaging only a slice however..... Ghost can be used: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=8t41s5%24nhh%241%40n yheter.crt.se Ghost will tread UFS/FFS as "an array of blocks", The only problem is that ghost will copy everything: freespace files, superblocks. Zerofilling the filesystems might be a solution (never tried, but see link) "dd can copy a single file, a part of a file, a raw partition or a part of a raw partition, and can even copy data from stdin to stdout while modifying it en route" (Unix backup & Recovery -- by Curtis Preston p.72) But how could I make an image from my system, and then write it to a (smaller) tape with dd? compressing it? Could I use zero-filling here as well? What about: http://partimage.sourceforge.net/ ? --- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, R.J. Zoontjens ____ __ / __ \____ _____/ /_/ _________ ____ ___ / /_/ / __ `/ __ / _ \/ ___/ __ \/ __ `__ \ / _, _/ /_/ / /_/ / __/ /__/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ |_|\__,_/\__,_/\___/\___/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ Dit bericht kan vertrouwelijke informatie bevatten. Indien u niet de geadresseerde van dit bericht bent, verzoeken wij u dit bericht te vernietigen zonder van de inhoud kennis te nemen en de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken, niet te kopieren en niet onder derden te verspreiden. This message may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the named addressee of this message please destroy it without reading, using, copying or disclosing its contents to any other person. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message