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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Tue Dec 14 09:01:02 2010
> From: nagios <nagios@todoo.biz>
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:42 +0100
> To: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition
>
> Hello,
>
> I have setup a tailored made configuration (1 UFS partition + 1
> swap + boot sectors) for some hardware that I am reselling and
> would like to clone one existing HDD (tailor made) and be able to
> dump to another new HDD.
>
> System is running pfSense with FreeBSD 7.2 and soon 8.x
>
> What would be your suggested method to achieve this goal.

*IF* the disks are the same size/geometry, then simply dd(1) from one raw
device to the other.