Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:26:35 -0500 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Steve Quinn <letter2steve@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: best approach to clone a disk? Message-ID: <CA136070-3EF0-46CF-A992-7B145EBA637C@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <20060215031225.37872.qmail@web51411.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060215031225.37872.qmail@web51411.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks Steve, These were the exact instructions I started with, only on a different page.... The problem with these for me is that dump caused a core dump. I've been trying to run dump while booted up from a Freesbie CD, but I was getting "unknown file system" errors I didn't know how to deal with. I'm going to try g4u next, but I'm surprised that what I originally thought would be a simple task has turned out to be such an amazing chore =( On Feb 14, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Steve Quinn wrote: > --- Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote: > >> What is your strategy for dealing with disks of different sizes, like >> mine are? >> >> > > Hi Joe > > Sorry dude, this will be a long read > > I use Ghost for Windows cloning mostly since it understands Fat and > NTFS filesystems and I don't > have to worry about empty blocks > > I used to use Partimage quite a bit but that was during my Linux > days :-) > > Now that I've discovered FreeBSD, I prefer to use Ghost for Unix > (G4U) for cloning my FreeBSD > boxen > > If you are cloning to an identical drive, G4U rocks. As a client/ > server based solution or even > locally it is really slick. > > If cloning to a bigger disk, G4U will work but will waste space on > your new disk requiring growfs > or other methods to use it up. (I have not dared to used growfs yet) > > I often want to clone a FreeBSD installation to a new larger drive > and don't want to fuss with > post cloning thingys > > Here's an excellent dump/restore prodecure that I've successfully > used on many production clones > > http://community.unixcities.com/node/5 > > It may seem like a lot but trust me, it's really worth learning > this process > > It's surprisingly fast as dump/restore understands the native > filesystems it copies and thus > ignores empty blocks > > I've got it down to a single simple script if you would like a copy > > Good luck and take care > > Steve > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
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