From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 25 12: 8: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (unknown [169.237.8.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228C137B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:07:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0PKMo801215; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101252022.f0PKMo801215@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Greg Lehey , Brandon DeYoung , FreeBSDHW Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:47:59 PST." <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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. dump/restore only gives you filesystem contents. dd is much faster if you pick a sensible (large) block size, and faster still if you use it in a pipe with 'team'. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message