From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 20:22:49 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 73ED8106566C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:22:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrei693@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED19E8FC0A for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so1443392eyg.13 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:22:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=EIuKovdasp0WWbN5IJLo24Bh3Y4ZLexAo9uZDVKZXYg=; b=IGnsYoUMgIssByhtGOA8q3qfhzzSBWHJb/qcEHG4VgDrZY8BHmLP5IOM8+r+e1X11F VWyPBdiD4uTzA284Fb8vDQafo31dPA4moA+PKGpDE48m8tXpXdVq+hEriHHO0Zmx1m9A SoybubpaWUJUvhnLjGyIxmVCdN+r5R0O7J+G0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jaB+GiJ+I02uKdFRZXqs/e5yFqZfIz3Blpdt/RyWqOO9mzdds7sqyc9KM7IuzrlcOo Tqi4Z7MXkeEDx7KBWm48OttLBAFBizwks0UcZFEtWZQxwkCzi5fGc4K+Zz0EnQ61yyMp +wWsieBZPThnWM4ZEo+3B5DD1rAOmh85jRo30= Received: by 10.14.44.7 with SMTP id m7mr1109068eeb.72.1307735838222; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp-077-251-165-041.chello.nl [77.251.165.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x46sm2695704eea.24.2011.06.10.12.57.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF2770E.1070204@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:57:02 +0200 From: Andrei Brezan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:22:49 -0000 On 10/06/2011 21:11, David Banning wrote: > I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. > > 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and > store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the > end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating > system backed up - that can later be restored. > > One concern I have is that the file saved is under a certain generic > standard - I don't want to be in a situation down the road where I > need to restore, but the required software to restore is defunct. > It would be nice to have the operating system on a stick - so I > could boot into the program from a clients computer, connect a large > drive, and backup their entire drive. > > 2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another > drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - but I wonder > if there is a way to do this so that clone drive can be smaller that > the original. My thinking here is that I need to experiment with > changes but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy booted > from a separate machine. > _______________________________________________ > 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" Hi, Though it's not a FreeBSD related question, I would suggest clonezilla http://www.clonezilla.org/ as a good tool to accomplish your goals. I think it's also scriptable. Regards, -- Andrei Brezan email