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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:05:37 +0100
From:      bsd <bsd@todoo.biz>
To:        Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition
Message-ID:  <1A4BE241-5B74-4BDA-B13F-DF1B3F30B30B@todoo.biz>
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Le 16 d=E9c. 2010 =E0 16:03, Bernt Hansson a =E9crit :

> 2010-12-16 11:55, bsd:
>=20
>> I have tried to use the compressed approach using smthg like:
>>=20
>> # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt
>> # cd /mnt
>> # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dzerofile bs=3D1M
>>=20
>>=20
>> I have a lot of errors on standerr output such as :
>>=20
>> g_vfs_done() : da0s1a [WRITE(offset=3D58978680256, =
length=3D131072)]error =3D 5
>=20
> You have to little disk space, is my guess.
>=20
>> Up to a point where It has finaly freezed my running FBSD 8.1.
>=20
> To little to fast.
>=20
>> I don't think I have reached the end of the file=85 ??
>>=20

Ok,=20

I have got It working.=20

I have created an 736 MB archive of my 160 GB hard drive.=20
Now I am trying to restore It from my mac with :=20

$ gzcat pfSense_HDD.gz | dd of=3D/dev/disk1 bs=3D1m


It has started at 19h52 and at 32h02 it is still not finished=85=20
I thing I'll go to sleep and see if the baby is born tomorow morning.=20

Is there anything I can do to speed up the process ?


Anyway thank you for all this useful help.=20

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