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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:37:03 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk Cloning
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote:
> Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.

For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's
their main purpose.



> Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc))
> and that takes forever (at least when cloning - have not tried a
> restore). 

You haven't tried restoring? You should, it's worth it, because
what's the value of a backup that cannot be restored? :-)



> Some specs I'm using to compare: A typical restore/save currently with
> other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from
> CD.
> 
> The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata.

Well, dump + restore isn't known for ultimate performance, but
its results are good; dd, on the other hand, is another possible
way to go. The advantage of dd is that it can be used with any
filesystem.


-- 
Polytropon
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