Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:58:29 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup and restore advise sought Message-ID: <20030822125829.GA82612@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20030822085735.GD9151@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030822042211.GA38002@polands.org> <20030822085735.GD9151@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / > > was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. > > Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is > the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice (s3) of the primary master > disk (ad0). ad1s3a is on the primary slave drive (ad1). What you > should probably see is the current partitions are > > ad0s1a, ad0s1b, etc. > > And when you swap your FreeBSD and Windows slices, that should > change to: > > ad0s2a, ad0s2b, etc. > > I recommend that when you copy the partitions, edit the /etc/fstab > file and put in the new device names before you copy. Preferably > restore the original fstab, and test that you can reboot using the > new slices before you install WinME over the original FreeBSD slice. > Thank you. I'm hoping this will be faster than reinstall and I'll learn something to boot! > > 4. Is there a better way? I remember reading about an OpenBSD > > "ghost" for Unix. > > As far as I know, all of the Unix "ghost" programs are essentially > scripts build around dump and restore. > While eagerly awaiting your response, I did some more googling on unix "ghost" programs. NetBSD has a floppy-based program called g4u that appears to use dd then sends compressed image to network ftp server. I might use that as a back-up in case anything goes wrong with plan A. Thanks again for you help. -- Regards, Doug
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