Hi folks, I've done this a (n exaggerated) million times on Linux but I'm new at OpenBSD. Google found me a few options and I just want to see whether there are any more that I missed.
FAQ 4.15 addresses this matter and says : "Unfortunately, there are no known disk imaging packages which are FFS-aware" However my googling turned up http://clonezilla.org/, and their FAQ claims that they understand "UFS". More googling tells me that UFS and FFS are the same thing. However I have not yet tried Clonezilla. I have also found this : http://www.ualberta.ca/~antoine/clone/openbsd.html Also looks promising. I like the looks of the latter since it seems to allow me to run the first part on a live system, to make a copy of that system (can anyone confirm that?). I'd much rather not have to take it down to make the image since I don't have to do that when I clone Linux. And my production systems will be happier that way :-) Clonezilla looks to be all-singing-all-dancing, but seems to require me to boot from their CD or USB in order to make a copy of my original system (can anyone confirm or refute?). Not a massive issue in my DEV rack but not ideal in production. In Linux the way I do systems is to boot the target system in Live Linux (Ubuntu), and then partition the HD(s) the way I want, and mount them up under /mnt/target/ with that being my root. Then run rsync locally to copy the master live system into /mnt/target. Use a couple of options to tell it what not to copy. Works awesome. The above perl scripts from U Alberta seem to be at least a bit similar to this procedure. Are there any options I am missing that I should look at? Has anyone used the above methods and can comment on how well they work or whether or not I should just avoid one or the other? thanks, -Alan -- "Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV" - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
