From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 18:32:25 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 322F437B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwe.compwest.com.au (compwest.com.au [202.72.147.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E23743FA3 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@bdug.org.au) Received: from ant.bdug.org.au (ant.parkview.compwest.com.au [202.72.147.43]) by cwe.compwest.com.au (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h581WG9s040927 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:32:20 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from paul@bdug.org.au) Received: from wks (wks.bdug.org.au [192.168.0.2]) by ant.bdug.org.au (8.12.9/8.12.6) with SMTP id h581WAYa042889; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:32:11 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from paul@bdug.org.au) From: "Paul Hamilton" To: "John" , Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:53:37 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <008c01c32cc0$503290e0$6401a8c0@sonic> cc: Jez Hancock Subject: RE: Disk copy -- WAS: Re: Can you copy FreeBSD from one of my present machine and load itto a new 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: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:32:25 -0000 Ghost 7.5 works for me. It doesn't like auto-resizing a partition, so the HD should be the same size or larger! Cheers, Paul Hamilton -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John Sent: Saturday, 7 June 2003 2:45 PM To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jez Hancock Subject: Disk copy -- WAS: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my presentmachine and load itto a new Actually, I have a similar problem. I would like to take my current FreeBSD system, and essentially IMAGE the entire disk (MBR and all), as a backup, as well as to a new disk. I'd like to upgrade my mail/web/db/imap/webmail/etc. server from a PPro200, to a 933, but I want to keep the drives in the 200 as they are, for quick and easy "backout-plan" purposes. In Windoze, you can use Drive Image, Ghost, various other utils for this. In Linux, you can use PartImage, or other utils for this. Only problem, none of these work for UFS?!? Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't care to spend the half day to a weekend necessary to backup the entire server to the network, reinstall Free on the new drives, and then restore everything.. I'm a lazy admin! :) Can someone point me to doc on the "easy way"? Thoughts? Thanks, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jez Hancock" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my present machine and load itto a new > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:52:56AM +0100, Matt Heath wrote: > > DanB wrote: > > > > >Can you copy freebsd and its configuration from one of my present > > >machine and load it to a new machine so I can do some repairs on it. > > >Maybe copy to a CDR and boot from that. > > > > > >Dan > > > > > > > > sure, for $500 > lol > > Why not just take the disks out and put them in the new machine. If the > partitioning isn't too fancy the system should work without too much > problem. Try doing *that* with a windows system :) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"