From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 20:10:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC57106564A for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from nm21.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm21.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72E978FC16 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.67] by nm21.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Jun 2011 19:57:13 -0000 Received: from [98.139.91.16] by tm7.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Jun 2011 19:57:13 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1016.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Jun 2011 19:57:13 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 407518.89980.bm@omp1016.mail.sp2.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 44728 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Jun 2011 19:57:12 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1307735832; bh=ev4zlLZz5q7kiw91YI6OzAiZE+Bvmk/kKElCZppsZdI=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=b0lQpyBcDM8z21OCle0ACYtwGoEoTLoGymXM9I7bcc82YZ6pHGs+xLT+OCgGBY/oNI9+NhKJaIF6oFiC/8z4VREWihexhV2A6rK12e+sYdH0/jsTVj7zn+TB3DRKQnAf/EMFt5609AVmIgqbj+3Ea0WakoUmeImEHHoITCdNapA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=xYdNiN6EI3EHULabQJYtPfXitY/YYIXRMxSBvKaE9TfPalEUYj62YaWlwjdT3sxCh1bqrsrEh0AyaN//vnj8k0i77t8O1qtDvpDFiJA7INQ5fkukIRO7HKan/BFcQt6DuVKF2jjp4w0tFyIqdWj9lVaC9voG2Bd9MvlUBPXGYmU=; Message-ID: <800967.38829.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: tL5jW6UVM1kZUSEKLM7l3ugnAfnC93j.52ygDvUM0jxpqYB U76J.RyWunGdea8EiI7gI2LsqE5IOd92yeyEmyrEChmnk6peHZDEuAGGvugm S2EPnUXHdSsZO5y4Gph7Z_sMIXxXtfm3chevMx5J9SEkG_g4ZHw5WwCkXEq7 _WL3aTfe8a_MleXJ9qTxaZvOJfVAQJWgDz4DGgPEsN5fuDLoJYx1YL3EgLZ6 ClRLZlfwGq3yjMqnKiP9U2ciqV1ePjZkzAioqkXnO3wNbysjORz9vXs1TqHg 9jorZopDDyLsiHbf0YDP6v4gz2T4OFWXtgVp.TaVq9wv5rr8Cxc0hUDim19H nRrEzIeSrtFwjTouhjT0atUCTQcHoypfeVQDpkDXA6DmQFBA.r1bi1EMx Received: from [98.242.233.74] by web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:12 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/570 YahooMailWebService/0.8.111.304355 References: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: David Banning , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: copying hard drives 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: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:10:29 -0000 =0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: David Banning =0ATo: questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Fri,= June 10, 2011 3:11:46 PM=0ASubject: copying hard drives=0A=0AI am interest= ed in copying hard drives and would like some feedback.=0A=0A1. I would lik= e a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and=0Astore each on porta= ble hard drive as a single file - so that in the=0Aend I have a large, say = 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating=0Asystem backed up - that can = later be restored.=A0 =0A=0AOne concern I have is that the file saved is un= der a certain generic=0Astandard - I don't want to be in a situation down t= he road where I=0Aneed to restore, but the required software to restore is = defunct.=0AIt would be nice to have the operating system on a stick - so I= =0Acould boot into the program from a clients computer, connect a large=0Ad= rive, and backup their entire drive.=0A=0A2. I'd like a simple way to copy = - my FreeBSD system to another=0Adrive - a clone so to speak - which I know= dd can do - but I wonder=0Aif there is a way to do this so that clone driv= e can be smaller that=0Athe original. My thinking here is that I need to ex= periment with=0Achanges but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy b= ooted=0Afrom a separate machine.=0A________________________________________= _______=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.freebsd= .org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0A=0A=0ALook into G4U...Ghos= t for Unix. It's a free and based on NetBSD. It will clone a =0Adrive, make= images of drives, etc...and you can't beat the price. I've used it =0Asucc= essfully many times.