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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>
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Subject: Re: disk imaging
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* Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> [000207 17:05] wrote:
> G'day Shirley,
> 
> > 
> > I need to package up a disk image (basically a sector-by-sector copy 
> > and
> > then compressed) so that it can be cloned to another machine with the 
> > same
> > hardware configurations.  Is there any tool available that will 
> > accomplish
> > this task?  What is the best way to do it?
> 
> yup - check out 'dd' (man dd) and 'gzip' (man gzip). dd is a standard
> tool, you may need to install gzip from the ports - or you can use the
> standard 'compress', which isn't as "good" as gzip, but does an ok job
> of compressing files anyway.

FYI, gzip has come bundled with FreeBSD for as long as I've used
it. (2.2.2)

-Alfred


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