From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 05:58:33 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 2939016A4BF for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81D443FBD for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (sheba.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7MCwUNP083696; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:58:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7MCwUwd082651; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:58:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@sheba.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7MCwTGE082650; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:58:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:58:29 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: Matthew Seaman , questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030822125829.GA82612@polands.org> References: <20030822042211.GA38002@polands.org> <20030822085735.GD9151@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030822085735.GD9151@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Backup and restore advise sought 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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:58:33 -0000 On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / > > was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. > > Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is > the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice (s3) of the primary master > disk (ad0). ad1s3a is on the primary slave drive (ad1). What you > should probably see is the current partitions are > > ad0s1a, ad0s1b, etc. > > And when you swap your FreeBSD and Windows slices, that should > change to: > > ad0s2a, ad0s2b, etc. > > I recommend that when you copy the partitions, edit the /etc/fstab > file and put in the new device names before you copy. Preferably > restore the original fstab, and test that you can reboot using the > new slices before you install WinME over the original FreeBSD slice. > Thank you. I'm hoping this will be faster than reinstall and I'll learn something to boot! > > 4. Is there a better way? I remember reading about an OpenBSD > > "ghost" for Unix. > > As far as I know, all of the Unix "ghost" programs are essentially > scripts build around dump and restore. > While eagerly awaiting your response, I did some more googling on unix "ghost" programs. NetBSD has a floppy-based program called g4u that appears to use dd then sends compressed image to network ftp server. I might use that as a back-up in case anything goes wrong with plan A. Thanks again for you help. -- Regards, Doug