From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 10:56:02 2004 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 8DBE116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:56:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.442spot.com (adsl-208-191-192-100.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [208.191.192.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD08043D2D for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shooverfbn@442spot.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.442spot.com [127.0.0.1]) by amavis.442spot.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3924A35; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:56:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.442spot.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.442spot.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02411-08; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:56:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from cutlass442 (unknown [192.168.2.130]) by mail.442spot.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EB84029; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:55:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <004f01c3ddf4$bcf298c0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> From: "Stephen Hoover" To: "Gilad Rom" References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com><20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz><20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> <400A25ED.4060408@romat.com> <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> <400A6E8B.2090009@romat.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:56:10 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 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, 18 Jan 2004 18:56:02 -0000 It took Ghost approximatly 1 hour to copy each 9G hard drive (2 hours total). The Dell has dual PIII 500's in it. Certainly not the fastest solution, but yet another option. Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilad Rom" To: "Stephen Hoover" Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 > Stephen Hoover wrote: > > I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time > > to time. > > > > I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my > > current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop > > with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a > > sector copy on each individual harddrive. > > > > All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one > > I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and > > work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the > > harddrives were slightly bigger. > > > > Just thought this was some good information for the list. > > > > Stephen Hoover > > Dallas, Texas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > > > Just out of curiousity - How long does it take for ghost to > replicate the disk? > > I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks > (2x20GB, EIDE, UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes. > > Gilad. > > >