Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tshadwick@goinet.com (Tony Shadwick) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: system cloning Message-ID: <200506102316.j5ANGfSQ003010@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050610175450.J78603@mail.goinet.com>
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> > 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. Small, but important quibble if you are doing FreeBSD stuff. FreeBSd (usually) has one _slice_ with many _partitions_. What MS tries to call a primary partition is a slice in FreeBSD - created with fdisk. Then slices may be divided in to partitions which, after being newfs-ed can be mounted as filesystems. ////jerry > > 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 <hawk, spit> Linux SCSI disk onto an IDE. That would make the > > disks identical. > > > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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