From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 29 00:07:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67F81065679 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:07:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387428FC1C for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so3557695bwz.43 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:07:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Dthf7sm9J5GNMNcSt9gz/R5IJhxcdt/nndaerG/bH38=; b=L9mBzF+c0pGfvF7AefDoXS2klw5FCsEPsbmDtmjlM074AfrgKA4I7/b4eW0hkrzldZ hN5Yt9c2lbNEWndZfL/48TmJQx/KDrpsMDFSCYEVFHIwfVNS9KCqsxIg6joEr2ahPVRf QmOtC/IW5fr6Seqp3aa7gErLu3+E0QNHytp+c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vqG/mV/lR+FO6xQSsvXydrByLSWmNm9cqPzLnCRWsDvd3W+rHqe0ihMa8gzgUoAgco hb3qtzOIcXAQUhkhxjrjBb2JXoJSTWUUlXfJFh8VqS4fjOvq2PaG0/EQMvl0t6+d2qO4 5NLPlbyOr44hoKBffu1/NfYrNTrGYXzRlq96Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.168.230 with SMTP id l38mr344133hbe.37.1254182851825; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:07:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090928213703.ecf59a9d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090928011444.29110022@chris.makeworld.com> <20090928213703.ecf59a9d.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:31 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chris , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:07:33 -0000 2009/9/28 Polytropon > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's > their main purpose. > > > > > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) > > and that takes forever (at least when cloning - have not tried a > > restore). > > You haven't tried restoring? You should, it's worth it, because > what's the value of a backup that cannot be restored? :-) > > > > > Some specs I'm using to compare: A typical restore/save currently with > > other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from > > CD. > > > > The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata. > > Well, dump + restore isn't known for ultimate performance, but > its results are good; dd, on the other hand, is another possible > way to go. The advantage of dd is that it can be used with any > filesystem. > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If your going to do all the partitoning manually its not to much more work to newfs them as well. You can then use rsync which is fast. Make sure you use good flags though, the following should do the job rsync -aPH --numeric-ids