From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 10:12:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prox.centtech.com (moat2.centtech.com [206.196.95.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA8537B40E for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by prox.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id JAA01461; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:15:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com(10.177.173.31) by prox via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma001459; Thu, 14 Jun 01 09:14:55 -0500 Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13208; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B28C6E0.9960B00@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:14:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cynic Cc: Bill Moran , Len Conrad , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghosting a FreeBSD disk or partition References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010614105357.02c19738@mail.Go2France.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010614161201.0211ae40@mail.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Me too.. it needs to have nfs/smb support too if it'll fit, so you can throw the images to a server (maybe ftp too?? i know, i'm pushing it) and retrieve them later.. i can think of about 50 features (easy ones) to throw in to make it 100x better than ghost.. Bill, you wanna "spearhead" this thing? sounds like a great tool.. I think there is a linux one, but i'd like to see a more featureful and handier version with a bsd.. (of course, it could do all kinds of partition types, not just bsd). Eric Cynic wrote: > > sounds very nice. I'd love it. > > At 16:01 14.6. 2001, Bill Moran wrote the following: > -------------------------------------------------------------- > >Len Conrad wrote: > >> > >> With PowerQuest Drive Image or Norton Ghost (or equivalent), does anybody > >> know whether these can be make to work with FBSD 165 partitions? > >> > >> I´ve seen the various threads on dump + restore, dd, tar, etc. Just > >> looking for other approaches to saving a FreeBSD partitions with least > >> hassle, most speed, best reliability (is one of the "you only can 2 out 3" > >> situations?) > >> > >> The goal is have canned procedures of minimum steps that can be run by > >> semi-tech person, vs by a full +nix BOFH sys admin. > > > >I just had an idea for a project. If I could make a single boot disk > >that would start a minimal FreeBSD kernel, and a simple menu system that > >would provide a step by step front end to dd, that would be able to > >replace Norton Ghost, right? > >Anybody think this is good idea/bad idea/great/waste of time? Whatever? > >Just thinking aloud, mostly, but it may be a worthwhile project. > > > >How about calling it "FreeBanshee" (kind of a play off FreeBSD + Banshee > >is a special kind of ghost)? > > > >-Bill > > > >-- > >If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, > >then what can I get for two hands in the bush? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------end of quote------ > > cynic@mail.cz > ------------- > And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files > were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. > - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology (512) 418-5792 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message