Andrew Batson wrote:
Hello,
I have spend a few hours trying to find way to create a clone/image of a currently working FreeBSD version 5.3 system. I would like to be able to clone/image the system to a secondary hard disk drive attached the PC. I have used Symantec's Ghost many times for Windows Systems and know that it could do the job but only in a sector by sector operation. This will create huge images files.
Is there any way to do? I have read about with g4u, dd, dump/restore but they do not seems to be able to do create the clone/image on a secondary attached hard disk drive.
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
I'm not sure ... have you looked at /ports/sysutils/dolly?
[513] Sat 26.Feb.2005 16:28:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] # make search key="clone" | grep -A 5 -B 2 disk Port: dolly-0.57 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/dolly Info: A program to clone harddisks/partitions over a fast switched network Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: R-deps: WWW: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/dolly.html
Port: dolly+-0.93 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/dolly+ Info: Improved version of dolly harddisk/partition network clone utility Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: R-deps: WWW: http://corvus.kek.jp/~manabe/pcf/dolly/
If you label, fdisk and slice the 2nd disk identically to the first, I'd think
dd would be easy, a la `dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/dev/ad1s1` and so on.
I've done something similar to what you describe by setting up the new disk via sysinstall and piping my partitions through tar, but I don't recall it being an immensely satisfying experience.
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