From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:51:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1770E106566C for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2EF8FC15 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1FHp0QE016517; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p1FHp0WU016514; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:00 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Jan Henrik Sylvester In-Reply-To: <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de> Message-ID: References: <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: Xn Nooby , questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:51:02 -0000 On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Warren Block wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: >> >>> On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and >>> it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). >>> >>> On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then >>> delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the >>> entire drive. >> >> Some of the development versions of Clonezilla do understand UFS. It's >> been a few months since I looked at this, and I need to go back and >> figure out exactly which. > > I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast > copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a > partition pretending that it did the entire slice. > > Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? AFAIR, yes, and a restore seemed okay afterwards. But again, that was months ago, and details have already become fuzzy.