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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:13:30 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Muller Petr <pmuller@bpz.muzlin.cz>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition
Message-ID:  <20021214004330.GA503@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131733330.41743-100000@wonkity.com>
References:  <20021214001921.GB32251@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131733330.41743-100000@wonkity.com>

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On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote:
>>> Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file
>>> system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage
>>> have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need something
>>> better.
>>
>> What do you mean by "better"?  What's the purpose of the clone?
>
> Ghost copies every block of partitions with filesystems it doesn't
> understand.

So does dd.  But that's pretty much what he said he didn't want to do.

Greg
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