At 11:32 AM 7.23.2002 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: >On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: >> > 23 >> >Jul 02 >> > >> >Dear Sir/Ma'am >> > >> > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very >> >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard >> >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning >> >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy >> >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. >> > >> >Regards >> >Markus R Bertel >> > >> See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy >> to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). > >What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I >use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? > >-- > > Gary Dunn > Open Slate Project > http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ > Honolulu > registered Linux user #273809 > To clone a HD to another, this is an example of a command for HD1 to HD2: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=8192
...which is what I use for 40GB IDEs. In place of the ad0 and ad1, for SCSI, I believe it is "da0" for HD1... look at /etc/fstab and use the info for the device (exclude the slice #"s1a" etc...) there or from "dmesg".... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
