Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:52:19 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Donald L Swoboda <dswobo01@mail.win.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Copy Software Message-ID: <1107489139.737.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <000801c50a63$886fde40$4a37b8cc@m7u8d5> References: <000801c50a63$886fde40$4a37b8cc@m7u8d5>
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On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45, Donald L Swoboda wrote: > Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. > Thanks > Don Swoboda > dswobo01@mail.win.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The command "dd" will copy an entire disk byte for byte. No sophistication, no handling disks of different sizes, no glamour at all. Don't copy a filesystem that is open for write and expect clean results. You could try running it from a live CD system such as Freesbie. There is also g4u, which stands for 'Ghost for Unix", which does some of the same things as Norton Ghost. Then there are well-tested tools such as dump and restore, tar, cpio.
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