Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:57:02 +0200 From: Andrei Brezan <andrei693@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying hard drives Message-ID: <4DF2770E.1070204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca> References: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca>
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On 10/06/2011 21:11, David Banning wrote: > I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. > > 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and > store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the > end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating > system backed up - that can later be restored. > > One concern I have is that the file saved is under a certain generic > standard - I don't want to be in a situation down the road where I > need to restore, but the required software to restore is defunct. > It would be nice to have the operating system on a stick - so I > could boot into the program from a clients computer, connect a large > drive, and backup their entire drive. > > 2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another > drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - but I wonder > if there is a way to do this so that clone drive can be smaller that > the original. My thinking here is that I need to experiment with > changes but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy booted > from a separate machine. > _______________________________________________ > 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" Hi, Though it's not a FreeBSD related question, I would suggest clonezilla http://www.clonezilla.org/ as a good tool to accomplish your goals. I think it's also scriptable. Regards, -- Andrei Brezan email<andrei693 [at] gmail.com>
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