From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 25 0:56:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C7C37B699 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 81E466AB73; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:26:30 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:26:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Josef Grosch Cc: Brandon DeYoung , FreeBSDHW Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning Message-ID: <20010125192630.Z44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010125184920.W44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com>; from jgrosch@mooseriver.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:47:59AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 0:47:59 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > 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. That depends on how full your drives are. If you need top copy the complete disk contents, 18 GB will take a while no matter what tools you use. If they're relatively empty, then other tools may be better. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message