Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Dec 14 Gary wrote: dick hoogendijk writes: What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the way dump/restore will work. Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the ins-and-outs of backup progs yet, so I was (am) curious about

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-15 Thread Gary Jennejohn
dick hoogendijk writes: On Dec 14 Gary wrote: I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore (except for restoring from tape) Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. I use dump/restore

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-15 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:30 AM 12.15.2002 +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Dec 14 Gary wrote: dick hoogendijk writes: What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the way dump/restore will work. Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-15 Thread Tony
There is also a program called rsync that will copy from one disk to another. One advantage of using this program is that you can set it to ONLY copy new files or files that have changed, If you format the backup disk as bootable and then all you might need is a change in fstab to get it to boot.

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
Jerry McAllister writes: Really, your best bet is dump(8)/restore(8). If you don't need inode-per-inode cloning then try /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup. What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-14 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
Someone on the list earlier suggest the following link http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ Regards, Shantanu +++ Muller Petr [freebsd] [13/12/02 11:44 +0100]: | Hi, | Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file | system, something like Symantec Ghost or

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
dick hoogendijk writes: Jerry McAllister writes: Really, your best bet is dump(8)/restore(8). If you don't need inode-per-inode cloning then try /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup. What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? Actually, the cpdup was from me and not Jerry

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: [yoda-posting changed have I] +++ Muller Petr [freebsd] [13/12/02 11:44 +0100]: | Hi, | Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file | system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage |

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Muller Petr typed: Hi, Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need something

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need something better. Thanks for your help Really, your best bet is

RE: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread JoeB
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Muller Petr Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:44 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Clone FreeBSD Partition Hi, Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system,

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Jerry McAllister writes: Hi, Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD fil e system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need something better. Thanks for your

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Muller Petr wrote: Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage have only sector by sector cloning for Unix system, but I need something better.

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote: Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec Ghost or DriveImage? Ghost and DriveImage have only sector by

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote: Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: What do you mean by better? What's the purpose of the clone? Ghost copies every block of partitions with filesystems it

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread George Jeliazkov
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:22:14 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 19:16:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg