On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Brad Mettee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and > completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is > secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low > volume/loads. > > It looks like I can use DD to copy an entire drive, but it's a 500G drive > and that's going to take a really long time (especially since it's brand new > with no data besides base OS). > > My question: Is there a better way to duplicate a drive including boot > info? You've got lots of useful answers on duplicating the system other ways, but I thought I'd mention that dd's performance can be enhanced by providing a blocksize. You might want to time some reads and writes with a set of numbers that divides evenly into the byte count of your disk. Years ago I found I could write a 40 GB laptop (4200RPM) disk in 21 minutes rather than one hour. --Donald _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"