Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, FreeBSDHW <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning Message-ID: <200101252022.f0PKMo801215@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:47:59 PST." <20010125004759.A6031@mooseriver.com>
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> > > 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.
dump/restore only gives you filesystem contents. dd is much faster if
you pick a sensible (large) block size, and faster still if you use it in
a pipe with 'team'.
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