From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 12:57:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BF037BAC8 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA15717; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:55:15 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e5QEIWM11202; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:18:32 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:18:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000626171831.B11007@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:08:35PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk wrote: > Does anyone know of a disk cloning programme (like Powerquest Drive Image, > Norton Ghost) that will allow me to make a full copy of a Free BSD partition > for disaster recovery purposes. That ought to be tar(1) you're talking about :-) Seriously though, apart from saving the disk partition and label information in hardcopy, and a tarball of the system, I rarely use other methods. I have thought of using dd(1) at times, but the empty areas of the filesystem are certainly not very interesting to me. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message