From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 8: 3:38 2002 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 D0BA537B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403B943E4A for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAGG3WuF060248; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:03:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id gAGG3WxN060245; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:03:32 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:03:32 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Mike Loiterman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restore question In-Reply-To: <004801c28d2a$c4e52690$0302a8c0@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mike Loiterman wrote: > In terms of doing a restore, I've wanted a "ghost" type of program > for a *long* time. There has to be an easier way? Perhaps this is > troublesome because of the way FreeBSD operates in terms of slices > and partitions rather then just partitions. I *believe* that the > copy of Ghost I have will work on Linux boxes, but I could be > mistaken. I've said it before, but not lately: http://www.partimage.org The current version of PartImage supports UFS/FFS, at least in a beta form. If you want a usable version of PartImage on a bootable CD: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Unfortunately, it's Linux, not FreeBSD, so you have to use /dev/hda instead of /dev/ad0, more instead of less, and so on. I don't know if the version of PartImage on that CD has the FFS support; probably not. A combination of a FreeBSD port of PartImage along with the LiveCD port could produce a self-restoring backup, even including the ability to span multiple CDs. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message