Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:34 -0500 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? Message-ID: <906E967F-B5A7-46FF-AD22-1B1F44A90C70@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <200602141104.08683.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> References: <39D18F08-5443-4642-AE0B-636415239F6B@netmusician.org> <200602141104.08683.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu>
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On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Don Hinton wrote: > Hi Joe: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:49, Joe Auty wrote: >> Okay, >> >> In taking the advice of an earlier poster in suggesting that the >> instructions located here: >> >> http://www.unixcities.com/howto/ >> >> Are rather old, allow me to make my question a little broader in >> scope: >> >> What is the best way to clone a disk in FreeBSD? Do you have any >> step- >> by-step instructions? The instructions I used above (even replacing >> the restore -r flag with a -x) produced a core dump. >> >> Can I use DD on two disks of different size? Do you recommend Ghost >> for Unix? Any other suggestions or recommendations should the dump >> command just not work for me? > > One of our grad students recently posted a how to on using Frisbee > here at > ISIS. The only difference is that you'll need another server > somewhere with > imagezip install instead of ours. You can find the how to here: > > https://research.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ir_wiki/ > Using_Frisbee_to_take_an_image_of_a_hard_drive > > Please let us know if it contains any omissions or errors and we'll > fix the > page. Btw, I've been told that this will only image a partition, > not the > master boot record, so you'll need that on the destination as well. > > This is what emulab uses to image drives, and works for several OS's, > including FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. > > hth... > don Thanks Don! However, I'm not completely sure that I have the disk space available to create an image. I was actually looking to do a complete copy of one local disk to another local disk, not create an image of the disk for deployment. Do these instructions still apply? ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org
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