From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 14:20:44 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 46074106567A for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8828FC2A for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F19C41CC033; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:20:43 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: lazaax - Message-ID: <20080424142043.GA52057@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <359960.91458.qm@web53801.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4374ff010804240635i11574c13k9eca384560fcbae7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4374ff010804240635i11574c13k9eca384560fcbae7@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: chilo , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Mark Carlson 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 14:20:44 -0000 On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:35:48AM -0500, lazaax - wrote: > 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. Clarification: if /dev/disk is a hard disk (which is implied), the resulting file will NOT be an ISO. It will be a raw hard disk image. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |