Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:11:37 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive Message-ID: <20060210161137.49552.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <f472e5e3718c5a6ed0a67cc57c3ff21a@chrononomicon.com>
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--- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > >>>> As long as the "new" slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't > >>>> matter to dump|restore .... <?> > >>> > >>> Right :) It also allows restoring in a different partition layout. > >> > >> Any chance of there being a way like this to restore to windows > >> systems > >> from the FreeBSD box? > > > > Not really. I'm far from being a Windows expert though, so YMMV. > > As an image? Look up partimage and partimaged. We've had some luck > restoring from both a Linux system running the Partimaged daemon and > booting from a Linux disk and restoring images off a samba/Windows > share using partimage. I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to contain the image. It needs to be exactly the same size (sectors) as the image. That's what I'm worried about. Any suggestions? __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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