From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 25 0:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mooseriver.com (erie.mooseriver.com [205.166.121.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0338137B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:48:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0P8lxO06087; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:47:59 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brandon DeYoung , FreeBSDHW Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning Message-ID: <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <20010125184920.W44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010125184920.W44155@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:49:20PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:49:20PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 1:46:47 -0800, Brandon DeYoung wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of a good utility for cloning BSD harddrives? > > I've been using Norton Ghost on windows and Linux boxes...but it > > doesn't seem to deal with UFS very well. > > dd? dd is good if you are only going to do this once or twice but dd can take a long time. On a dual PIII 800mhz with 2 gig of ram with LVD SCSI disks both disks were 18 gig 10,000 RMP IBMs it took me 90 to 120 minutes to dd one disk to another. If you are going to be doing this on a regular basis look into dump and restore. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.2 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message