From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 9:18:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6545937B416 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-20-175.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.20.175]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA11318; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:11 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020116111808.017908f8@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:08 -0600 To: igorr@speechpro.com From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020116160748.GA96235@sysadm.stc> References: <3.0.5.32.20020116095743.017908f8@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20020116095743.017908f8@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG None-the-less, one is back to really having to stop and do a "backup" rather than a mirror setup where the same files are written/deleted concurrently on both HDs and are identical (synced). On doing just backups, there is chance (most likely) of losing stuff since the last backup, even if a backup was only a few minutes ago.... Not to say there shouldn't be regular backups, but for immediate change of HDs on the fly via reboot to HD#2... wish I could also mirror! At 07:07 PM 1.16.2002 +0300, Igor Roboul wrote: >On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:57:43AM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >> ...If I was running Linux this might be worth a look, but I'm running FBSD... >> >> Got another URL for FBSD...??? >This does not matter. Just boot with diskette and it will clone any OS >you wish. I know one based on NetBSD, but it needs external FTP >server, while CloneIt does not need external storage. > >It just copies raw hard disks over the network. > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message