Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:11:46 -0400 From: David Banning <david+dated+1308165107.fdbca6@skytracker.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: copying hard drives Message-ID: <20110610191145.GA36779@skytracker.ca>
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I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating system backed up - that can later be restored. One concern I have is that the file saved is under a certain generic standard - I don't want to be in a situation down the road where I need to restore, but the required software to restore is defunct. It would be nice to have the operating system on a stick - so I could boot into the program from a clients computer, connect a large drive, and backup their entire drive. 2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - but I wonder if there is a way to do this so that clone drive can be smaller that the original. My thinking here is that I need to experiment with changes but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy booted from a separate machine.
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