Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:26:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> Cc: Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, FreeBSDHW <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning Message-ID: <20010125192630.Z44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com>; from jgrosch@mooseriver.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:47:59AM -0800 References: <NDBBIMEMALMGDMAJDFPEKELOCAAA.brandon@schoolpeople.net> <20010125184920.W44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com>
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On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 0:47:59 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:49:20PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 1:46:47 -0800, Brandon DeYoung wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> Does anyone know of a good utility for cloning BSD harddrives? >>> I've been using Norton Ghost on windows and Linux boxes...but it >>> doesn't seem to deal with UFS very well. >> >> dd? > > dd is good if you are only going to do this once or twice but dd can take a > long time. On a dual PIII 800mhz with 2 gig of ram with LVD SCSI disks both > disks were 18 gig 10,000 RMP IBMs it took me 90 to 120 minutes to dd one > disk to another. If you are going to be doing this on a regular basis look > into dump and restore. That depends on how full your drives are. If you need top copy the complete disk contents, 18 GB will take a while no matter what tools you use. If they're relatively empty, then other tools may be better. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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