Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:44:35 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive Message-ID: <20060210144435.6572.qmail@web60020.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210102919.GA1056@flame.pc>
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2006-02-09 18:48, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> Bah! That's too slow for my taste. I would usually go for a newfs, > >> dump, and restore option. For instance, to create a copy of /usr on > a > >> second disk: > >> > >> newfs -U /dev/ad1s1a > >> mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt > >> dump -0 -a -L /usr | ( cd /mnt ; restore ruvf - ) > >> > >> Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) > > > > Sorry to butt in --- but I'm needing to start cloning too. Looks > > like a winner to me ... wouldn't this have the added advantage > > of making "same size and geometry" (cf. Erik Trulsson, 4 hours ago, > > this thread) less relevant? > > Yes, this is pretty much the important point :) > > > 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? __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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