Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:37:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Cloning Message-ID: <20090928213703.ecf59a9d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090928011444.29110022@chris.makeworld.com> References: <20090928011444.29110022@chris.makeworld.com>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's their main purpose. > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) > and that takes forever (at least when cloning - have not tried a > restore). You haven't tried restoring? You should, it's worth it, because what's the value of a backup that cannot be restored? :-) > Some specs I'm using to compare: A typical restore/save currently with > other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from > CD. > > The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata. Well, dump + restore isn't known for ultimate performance, but its results are good; dd, on the other hand, is another possible way to go. The advantage of dd is that it can be used with any filesystem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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