On 2/28/06, Gayn Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Iantcho Vassilev > > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:46 AM > > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: Snapshots - can we use is for cloning disk(full > > restore to a newhard disk) > > > Guys, i searched the web and the mailing lists about this > > topic,but i really didn`t find any interesting thing.. > > Can i use the snapshots for full restore and if yes how can > > we do that? > > > > The part that everyone is referring to the snapshots is the > > fcsk you can run > > on it while the filesystem is working also.. > > You ought to be able to clone a partition from a snapshot via backup > (from the snapshot) | restore (to another disk). Doing this for every > partition should clone the FreeBSD system as of the snapshot. I've > never tried it, however, and I'd be interested in hearing from someone > who has done it successfully.
... Yea.. That`s the idea... Maybe dd copy from the snapshot and then growfs if the hard disk is bigger... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
