From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 15:27: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from elara.frii.com (elara.frii.com [216.17.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1744B154A0 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jott@frii.net) Received: from localhost (jott@localhost) by elara.frii.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA26005; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:24:54 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: elara.frii.com: jott owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:24:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Jake Ott X-Sender: jott@elara.frii.com To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to clone a hard disk? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even easier...a device copy. cp /dev/da0 /dev/da1 Makes an exact copy of the drive. Very cool, however this assumes that you are useing two of the same drives. Exact same drives. It does a bit for bit copy of the entire drive. So this copies any boot, diag, or other kinda weird sectors. -Jake Systems Administrator Front Range Internet 970.224.3668 x221 On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Damien Tougas wrote: > Hello, > > I want to put a second IDE hard disk in my FreeBSD 3.1 server, and create a > clone of the one that currently exists. I thought that this might be a good > disaster recovery scheme to use when upgrading my operating system. If any > problem occurrs while installing the upgrade, all I have to do is switch the > drives to be back to where I was before with minimum downtime. How possible > or practical is this? I know that in Windows NT we would use a product such > as Norton Ghost, how would I go about creating such a clone in FreeBSD? > > Thanks, > > Damien Tougas > Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. > 10148 - 73 Street > Edmonton, Alberta T6A 2W9 > Phone: (780) 469-1679 > Fax: (780) 461-5127 > mailto:dtougas@converging.net > http://www.converging.net > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message