From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 11:04:26 2003 Return-Path: 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 DD91116A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4CF43FB1 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7UI4MCu038067; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:04:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id h7UI4Mwb038064; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:04:22 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:04:21 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Stefan Malte Schumacher In-Reply-To: <20030830130240.GA8401@drachenhorst.fantasy.net> Message-ID: <20030830115654.L38051@wonkity.com> References: <20030830130240.GA8401@drachenhorst.fantasy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:04:27 -0000 On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach > simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and > use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then > distribute the images around different computers on the network. I would > like to be able to something like this with FreeBSD. I have had a look at > Ghost 4 Unix but this is mainly oriented towards deploying images via the > network while I just want to store the files locally. The advantage of Ghost > and Ghost4Unix is that is is very easy to restore the system even if it so > messed up that it wont boot. How can I do this ? See http://www.partimage.org. There are a few bootable Linux CDs that include partimage; I've used the ~40M Gentoo one very successfully on FAT32 partitions. PartImage UFS support is still marked as beta; I have not tested it on FreeBSD partitions. There is no FreeBSD port of PartImage yet. It does compile, and almost works from the command line. However, it seems to depend on some Linuxisms, and I've had no time to try farther. Restoring after a crash will depend on where the image file is saved. If it's smaller than 700M or so, it will fit on a CD. Boot the Gentoo system into ram (gentoo cdcache) and then you should be able to load and mount the CD with the image file. For larger images, it should be possible to use DVD, or maybe tape. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA