From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 26 23:32:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D7D37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.schmut.com (adsl-67-121-114-163.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.121.114.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C46DE43FEA for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mario@schmut.com) Received: (qmail 45374 invoked by uid 0); 19 Feb 2003 18:38:31 -0000 Received: from quack.schmut.com (HELO schmut.com) (192.168.23.98) by snoopy.23.168.192.in-addr.arpa with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 18:38:31 -0000 Received: from 192.168.23.97 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mario@schmut.com) by webmail.schmut.com with HTTP; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:17:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4512.192.168.23.97.1045678649.squirrel@webmail.schmut.com> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:17:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Symantec Ghost-like app for UFS? From: To: In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030217190503.0626c2d8@globalpc.net> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030217190503.0626c2d8@globalpc.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this is what i did on FreeBSD 4.6 and 7 # to dump the entire hard drive onto another one setup the partitions and slices on your new hard drive. i did it this way, but command line works too. * do /stand/sysinstall * post configuration - fdisk - setup the partition * post configuration - label - setup the root and swap slices # then do this for each slice you want to back up [root@quack ~]#mount /dev/ /mountPoint [root@quack ~]#cd /mountPoint [root@quack /mountPoint]#dump 0f - /oldSlice | restore -rf - uh, you might want to do this in single user mode then swap the new hard drive in place of the old one or change your fstab and boot up on it. mario;> --------------------- Do You Schmut!? http://www.schmut.com > > Is there anything out there that resembles Symantec Ghost but works with > FreeBSD partitions? > > Basically I want to be able to transfer a FreeBSD installation from an > old hard drive to a new one without having to reinstall, reconfigure, > etc. > > Thanks > > -Adrian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message