Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:20:41 +0200 From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clone a FBSD system with something in the likes of ghost Message-ID: <c0c912ce-e859-4afb-76fc-cf06da97d848@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <CAN2YBg6qUBXd8qy25zT5FNe9LkyY=x3po1H3UoD1Y2fDxrBvQw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHieY7TSESodQXBLoZkkBGWZaCbEZessqiMvzp9dR8Y1CoAZtw@mail.gmail.com> <57EC9527.7020202@rcn.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609282305130.7457@wonkity.com> <CAHieY7QV3xYPsNxXdZrYCGO7SA37Mxn_yy2njByR2EBd9DzX9A@mail.gmail.com> <CAN2YBg6qUBXd8qy25zT5FNe9LkyY=x3po1H3UoD1Y2fDxrBvQw@mail.gmail.com>
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At this point there are some similar products like norton ghost. One is http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#g4u The problem is always, that is can't boot, when it come from a hdd to a ssd. http://www.cyberciti.biz/datacenter/5-awesome-open-source-cloning-software/ and looking at goole for "clone disk" greetings, there are more things, that can but not must help you. ;( On 10/02/16 20:12, JD wrote: > By clone, you mean create a new disk with identical > content to the cloned disk? Including the boot blocks > of the cloned disk? > If so, dump and restore will only perform like a full backup. > The target (copy-to) disk will not be bootable. > If you want it bootable, then there is a simlpe procedure > 1. Obtain a new disk with sufficient capacity as close as possible > to size of the source disk. Not less than, though!! > 2. dd if=</dev/..... i.e. the source disk> of=/dev/..... i.e. the new disk> > bs=128M conv=notrunc conv=fdatasync > > When finished, without error, > the new disk will be a bootable mirror of the original. > > HTH > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Robert Huff wrote: >>> >>>> On 9/28/2016 10:43 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a beautiful running server (dozens of jails and intricate >>>>> configuration) on a single small and aging hard drive. I bought 2 new >> hard >>>>> drives and want to migrate to a ZFS mirror. >>>>> >>>>> Pardon my ignorance but would there be a way to just copy my system >> from >>>>> the old drive to the new ZFS array? >>>>> >>>>> I was thinking of something like this: 1) install the two new drives >> in the >>>>> server and boot with old drive via an USB enclosure. 2) Create a >> booteable >>>>> ZFS array and somehow copy an identical image of my current system >> onto the >>>>> array. >>>>> >>>>> Am I dreaming or are there actual ways of doing this? I really don't >> want >>>>> to re-install and configure everything. Just want to move an identical >> copy >>>>> of my system to the new hard drives on a ZFS mirror. >>>> >>>> >>>> The canonical - and correct - method involves dump piped to >> restore; there may be an example in the Handbook. >>> >>> >>> I have not tried it, but I think restore(8) should work when writing to >> a ZFS system. >>> >>> So dump(8) on the original UFS piped to restore(8) on ZFS, presumably in >> a dataset or multiple datasets. >>> >>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html >>> >>> After it is on ZFS, dump(8) cannot be used, but zfs send and zfs recv >> are similar. Or rsync, or tar, or clonehd, or other things. The options >> with them are the trick. It takes a lot to get rsync to make a serious >> copy of a non-trivial filesystem with links and flags. >> >> Thanks for your suggestions! >> I will look into dump and restore. >> >> Thanks again! >> >> Alejandro Imass >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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