At 10:10 AM 11.15.2002 +0100, R. Zoontjens wrote: > >Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> There IS a program similar to Ghost with respect to making an image. It's >> called "dd" and it's already installed on your FBSD system. Run "man 1 dd" >> for options. >> >> Bear in mind that if you want an image of your whole disk, you'll need the >> 2nd one to be at least equal in size, but you will lose any part >> of the 2nd >> HD that is larger than HD #1 (I think Ghost does that too -- or used to). >> dd can be limited to imaging only a slice however..... > > >Ghost can be used: >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=8t41s5%24nhh%241%40n >yheter.crt.se >Ghost will tread UFS/FFS as "an array of blocks", The only problem is that >ghost will copy everything: freespace files, superblocks. Zerofilling the >filesystems might be a solution (never tried, but see link) > >"dd can copy a single file, a part of a file, a raw partition or a part of a >raw partition, and can even copy data from stdin to stdout while modifying >it en route" (Unix backup & Recovery -- by Curtis Preston p.72) > >But how could I make an image from my system, and then write it to a >(smaller) tape with dd? compressing it? Could I use zero-filling here as >well? >
Will the HD be bootable using Ghost.....??? I prefer dd for imaging because it is part of the base FBSD system and thus I trust it more. However, although I have used dd many times, I prefer dump/restore for backup/restore of a FS..... I move HDs from machine to machine often this way.... and boots right up. Dunno about Ghost.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
