From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 6:42: 7 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 EF4A537B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431C243E4A for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAFEfnD49895; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:41:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20021115084144.010abd98@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:41:44 -0600 To: "R. Zoontjens" , "Matthew Emmerton" , From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: RE: restore question In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20021114195745.01099888@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 10:10 AM 11.15.2002 +0100, R. Zoontjens wrote: > >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? > Will the HD be bootable using Ghost.....??? I prefer dd for imaging because it is part of the base FBSD system and thus I trust it more. However, although I have used dd many times, I prefer dump/restore for backup/restore of a FS..... I move HDs from machine to machine often this way.... and boots right up. Dunno about Ghost.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message