From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 03:52:22 2005 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 0724B16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:52:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6811C43D2D for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:52:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 2005 03:52:20 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Donald L Swoboda In-Reply-To: <000801c50a63$886fde40$4a37b8cc@m7u8d5> References: <000801c50a63$886fde40$4a37b8cc@m7u8d5> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1107489139.737.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:52:19 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Copy Software 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: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:52:22 -0000 On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45, Donald L Swoboda wrote: > Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. > Thanks > Don Swoboda > dswobo01@mail.win.org > _______________________________________________ > 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" > The command "dd" will copy an entire disk byte for byte. No sophistication, no handling disks of different sizes, no glamour at all. Don't copy a filesystem that is open for write and expect clean results. You could try running it from a live CD system such as Freesbie. There is also g4u, which stands for 'Ghost for Unix", which does some of the same things as Norton Ghost. Then there are well-tested tools such as dump and restore, tar, cpio.