Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:35:48 -0500 From: "lazaax -" <lazaax.und@gmail.com> To: "Mark Carlson" <carlsonmark@gmail.com> Cc: chilo <olihc17@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help on Disk Cloning/Ghosting/imaging... Message-ID: <4374ff010804240635i11574c13k9eca384560fcbae7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bab706780804231323j1d0cd784h7867630f262c5d04@mail.gmail.com> References: <359960.91458.qm@web53801.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <bab706780804231323j1d0cd784h7867630f262c5d04@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/4/23 Mark Carlson <carlsonmark@gmail.com>: > On 4/23/08, chilo <olihc17@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > How can I reproduce my system to another box with the same configuration? > > > > How to create and image if it is using RAID5 with 4x146 SAS drives? isthis possible with RAID5 or can I just image disk by disk (JBOD) willit not affect the contents because it has raid5 technology? and how todo it? > > > > Is there a third party software like "Ghost" in Freebsd? if so how to use it? > > > > During my search I saw frisbee but I don't know how to use it. There are only limited information on how to use it and I can't understand it cause I'm new at using freebsd. > > > > btw I have Freebsd 7 amd64 system. > > > > Dual Core Intel XEON processor 5000 1333MHZ > > Intel 5000 chipset family > > 1 GB min fully buffered memory > > 4 x 146GB SAS drives > > Lan Intel 82563EB dual port controller > > LSI 1068 SAS Contoller > > > > I need to have the same configurations on the other servers withoutgoing through the installation stuffs. I believe this is possible but Ido not know how. > > > > Advance and many thanks. > > Can you put two LSI 1068 controllers in one system? If so, install a > second controller in your working box, attach 4 hard drives to it, > configure the RAID 5, boot up, use 'dump' to do a level 0 dump of the > working filesystem to the new drives, take the drives and controller > out, and put it in the new system. Boot up the new system and it > should be the same as the other one! > > If you can't put two LSI 1068 controllers in one box this probably > will not work. In this case, you may be able to boot the second box > from a live CD, and set up netcat or something to stream a dump from > the working box over to the hard drives on the second box via the > network. > > -Mark C. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > hi, i do clone disk with command "dd" dd if=/dev/disk of=/home/iso.iso good luck. -- Leon Chavez Colima, Mexico "lazaax"
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