From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 22:56:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D71A216A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:56:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871DB43D48 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:56:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5AMuAcw017396; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j5AMu9VJ017393; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: <20050610175450.J78603@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:56:16 -0000 You expect too much of my RAID controller. :) Ghost won't do it because: 1. There is only room for 3 drives in the system. RAID5 requires 3 drives. 2. Ghost deals in partitions. FreeBSD (usually) has one partition with many slices. 3. Doubt it has drivers for my RAID array. :) On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Tony Shadwick wrote: > >> >> I have a system that we are running in production that there was an >> oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I >> believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct >> this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that >> we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. >> >> There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take care of >> this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the >> filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and >> then bless the boot volume. > > If you want two more identical drives then use dump, not tar, but you'd have > to have them sliced/partitioned up the same beforehand and it wouldn't do > bootblocks. > > Silly question, but won't your RAID controller do it for you? Or is that > expecting too much? > > Or what about using Ghost? No experience of *doing* it myself, but someone I > work with did it very successfully just a couple days ago to get a copy of an > unbootable Linux SCSI disk onto an IDE. That would make the > disks identical. > > --Alex >