From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 14:04:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12231065675 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lazaax.und@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5E98FC29 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lazaax.und@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so1401950nfb.33 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=JoiOUMTu8z0LmDakwMPYjlMM575DZV7Hjd9vza7voPU=; b=XJVu6gbdYnopXHCGTCLyX73ZWyrFp+ns8HQtfzQHCiXfKFTxeZNTe4BaH1sB3WFWT3sEaUL95M/TZ5QjZAjjVBm6HBGw3ZI7c7CxYbW+uHkDEYGhiiHUFi4qHI8jG19O5J1wlc4E7k9sKS0yFUjxXSSoa4aICafmIWgkJ6hLDK4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jX4Ksemz7eH4ZTzabotDQyyWTp95dV/2CwPBpRGe6BSN2L28Xxkd5fHEoXZrhuHzBkTG73FdoVAPUO+YeJJ2dmIfNRhs83ckPlhmovwgypqwyN9+zqjmU91lQVeqZ3uXFzszg1Igi0h1jaLftL6dgcuMvTU9Pqst0MT0y46C0NQ= Received: by 10.78.150.7 with SMTP id x7mr2489071hud.107.1209044148596; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.187.1 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4374ff010804240635i11574c13k9eca384560fcbae7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:35:48 -0500 From: "lazaax -" To: "Mark Carlson" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <359960.91458.qm@web53801.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: chilo , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help on Disk Cloning/Ghosting/imaging... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:04:50 -0000 2008/4/23 Mark Carlson : > On 4/23/08, chilo 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"