Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:48:52 +0100 From: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Snapshots - can we use is for cloning disk(full restore to a newhard disk) Message-ID: <18e02bd30603010148sf80ed25i80363e709a134f72@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <055501c63c95$fd8c45a0$6501a8c0@workdog> References: <18e02bd30602280245u1a6453e4r8f3dcdd654c8571f@mail.gmail.com> <055501c63c95$fd8c45a0$6501a8c0@workdog>
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On 2/28/06, Gayn Winters <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> wrote: > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > Iantcho Vassilev > > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:46 AM > > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: Snapshots - can we use is for cloning disk(full > > restore to a newhard disk) > > > Guys, i searched the web and the mailing lists about this > > topic,but i really didn`t find any interesting thing.. > > Can i use the snapshots for full restore and if yes how can > > we do that? > > > > The part that everyone is referring to the snapshots is the > > fcsk you can run > > on it while the filesystem is working also.. > > You ought to be able to clone a partition from a snapshot via backup > (from the snapshot) | restore (to another disk). Doing this for every > partition should clone the FreeBSD system as of the snapshot. I've > never tried it, however, and I'd be interested in hearing from someone > who has done it successfully. ... Yea.. That`s the idea... Maybe dd copy from the snapshot and then growfs if the hard disk is bigger...
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