Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:47 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, questions-list freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <AANLkTikTQOnU4x101Nbnzd64eoF4im5zbJGBfQBDdZ=L@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102151420080.17148@wonkity.com> References: <AANLkTinaPn50-vUigoj_d=optGqxj4NDFoN9=RvTxcpX@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102150820500.15948@wonkity.com> <4D5AA85E.6070807@janh.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102151420080.17148@wonkity.com>
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I downloaded the "alternative testing" ubuntu-based version of Clonezilla, and it appeared to backup my FreeBSD machine. It identified my filesystem as UFS. I will wipe the drive and try a restore later tonight. It said it was backing up 30GB of files, which seemed odd for a fresh install. The backup was 7.5GB. There is a lot of good info in this thread, so I will be experimenting with the various methods discussed. It sounds like I really need to learn about dump/restore. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > >> I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast >> copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a >> partition pretending that it did the entire slice. >> >> Did you try to copy a slice with multiple partitions? > > Since my T42 is handy, I'm testing the latest clonezilla-1.2.7-11-i686 image > on it, PXE-booted. It shows this sliced/partitioned disk as > > Clonezilla FreeBSD > ---------- ------- > sda (60.0GB... > sda1 (60.0GB_ufs... / > sda5 (ufs... / > sda6 ((In_HTS... swap > sda7 (ufs... /var > sda8 (ufs... /tmp > sda9 (ufs... /usr > > "savedisk" will back up all of these from sda1 onwards, so there will be two > copies of / (sda1 and sda5). Same size but different md5s, no idea what's > going on there. > > In the "saveparts" menu, the appropriate partitions can be picked by just > choosing all the ones showing ufs in the first part of the description, but > Clonezilla will only restore them to existing partitions. "restoredisk" > doesn't recognize a backup directory created with saveparts. > > Using a VirtualBox system with a 62G disk, Clonezilla restored all the > partitions and the boot block. The restored system boots and seems fine. > It really ought to be verified with mtree checksums or something similar. > > There are Clonezilla mailing lists, and anyone who wants to use it with > FreeBSD or other UFS filesystems should join. (I don't generally use > Clonezilla for FreeBSD, and my project list is already too long, so I > haven't, but still...) >home | help
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