Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-03 Thread Fbsd8
Stephen Cook wrote: On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-02 Thread Stephen Cook
On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-02 Thread Shane Ambler
On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method. >> > > Or just delete the existing keys and sshd will recreate them at first > boot ;) No, sshd will not create the keys. They are created by /etc/rc.d/sshd, which invokes ssh-keygen if it doesn't f

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/27/12 7:05 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Cook wrote: > >> 3) Create new SSH keys >>3a) For host keys, I can delete the existing ones in /etc/ssh/ and >> reboot, is there a better way? >> > > ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method. > Or just dele

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Adam Vande More
ern? I don't seem to be having > a problem but TBH I'd rather understand what is going on than just be lucky. > You can set the MAC address statically in the VB machine. I don't know if it changes it by cloning a system, but even if it does you can change to what you want eve

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/27/12 5:54 PM, Stephen Cook wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. > > I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on > cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. > se

Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Stephen Cook
Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc). Here&

Re: Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've written a few "howto"'s on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but > now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. > > I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether

Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've written a few "howto"'s on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With that said, I'll lay out my scenario and my questions.

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
ebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit fa

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. ... You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for pri

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD > which I had put into > an external SATA Icybox. > > I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions > afterwards somehow, > possibly with some geometry tweakin

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Jerry McAllister schrieb: > >On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > >>Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk > >>partitioning experts are around here. > >>My note

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 51

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >> Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk >> partitioning experts are around here. >> My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston S

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk > partitioning experts are around here. > My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ > Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention

RE: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Steele
arch 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive,

dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The

Re: iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
On 31 January 2010 22:51, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Torgeir Hoffmann > wrote: > > > However, trying to get this done automatically seems not to work: > > > > wlans_iwi0: not found > > ifconfig_wlan0: not found > > > > if I have rc.conf entries: > > > > wlans_iwi0 =

Re: iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all, > > After installing 8.0-release I followed all the howtos on cloning my iwi0 > device to wlan0 to setup > the wireless. > > The manual configuration: > > ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 && wp

iwi and wlan-cloning

2010-01-31 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi all, After installing 8.0-release I followed all the howtos on cloning my iwi0 device to wlan0 to setup the wireless. The manual configuration: ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 && wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 & dhclient wlan0 works well. However, trying to g

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-10-03 Thread Francisco Reyes
krad writes: On a side note. Anyone building new systems manually from the shell I would recommend using GPT labels if you can. Apart from not having the 8 fs limit (128 iirc) gpart is a dam sight nicer to use than bsdlabel, and scripting it Any links on GPT on 8? Found this tutorial for 7 htt

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Polytropon
About the dd method: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:30:58 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > It can be used, but it is not a good way to do it. For regular backups or even for cloning, it's not very performant, I agree. I'm mostly using this method for forensic purposes, when I need a copy

Re: just cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
PJ wrote: > Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2 > computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a > minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately. > This link > http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html > seems to be about right, but

just cloning

2009-09-30 Thread PJ
Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2 computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately. This link http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html seems to be about right, but I'd like to get some

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:08:05AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Forgot to mention this: > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > > 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f > > and g slices or is it partitions? > > The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e,

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:48:30PM -0400, PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote: > > > >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can > >> it be dumped if its been formatted? > >> > > When you're working on this low level

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:44:38PM -0400, PJ wrote: > I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing > up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. > I would like to do 2 things: > 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:01 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: So usually I back up /, /var, and /usr to files on a USB disk or sshfs. Then I switch to the new target system, booting it with a FreeBSD disk and doing a minimal install. That makes sure th

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: >> Assuming nobody uses tape drives anymore, you need to specify >> another file, which is the standard output in this case, which >> may not be obvious, but it is if we reorder the command line: >> >> # dump -0 -L - a -u -f - /dev/

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
, gives me a chance to set all the filesystem sizes, and > newfses them. Similar here. In most cases, the FreeBSD live system is completely sufficient: run sysinstall, slice, boot loader, partitions, drop to shell; mount USB stick, restore from files located there. For automated cloning,

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. This works without problems as long as it is running from the system t

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it from somewhere else, like

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr > instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. This works without problems as long as it is running from the system to be copied. In case you use a live sy

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from /

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: Forgot to mention this: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f and g slices or is it partitions? The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can be copied 1:

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target $ cd /target $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - dump is reading /dev/ad1s1a and using stdout for output. restore is writing to the current directory (/target) and is reading from stdin. But what

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: > Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was > issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it > from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from / as > that is what I was trying to dum

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
Forgot to mention this: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f > and g slices or is it partitions? The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can be copied 1:1 with dd. By using dump + restore, the

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > I feel a bit stupid, as usual, my carelessness led me to miss the > difference between ad1 and ad2... dumb, dumb, dumb. As long as you realize it BEFORE any writing operation, it's no problem. Keep in mind that the numbering of ad*, as well as of da

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can >> it be dumped if its been formatted? >> > > When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your > commands. Failure to do so can cause da

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Olivier Nicole wrote: $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target $ cd /target $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - >>> [...] >>> >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can >> > > Thats ad*1*s1a that has

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
You are a Master among masters... extraordianry understanding of the genre and ver, very clear explanations... I guess my filter between the brain and the computer is a bit foggy... :-( I really appreciate your explanations. But I still have a couple of small questions below... Polytropon wrote:

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote: > But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can > it be dumped if its been formatted? When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your commands. Failure to do so can cause data loss. In the example you presented, a

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:09:51 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: > >> So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L > >> option. > > > > Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions. > > That is unnecessary. The -L optio

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
> >> $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a > >> $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target > >> $ cd /target > >> $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - > >[...] > But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can Thats ad*1*s1a that has just been formatted, not ad2... Best, Olivier ___

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: > >> I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing >> up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to >> computer. >> I would like to do 2 things: >> 1. clone severa

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L option. Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions. That is unnecessary. The -L option is there just for dumping mounted filesystems. -Warren Block * Rapid City, Sou

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte > partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image > file to get at the first 512 bytes. There is a point where a dd copy of the MBR is quite

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:44:38 -0400, PJ wrote: > This may be clear to someone; it certainly is not to me. > As I understand it, newfs will (re)format the slice. No. The newfs program does create a new file system. In other terminology, this can be called a formatting process. Note that NOT a slice

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon wrote: doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separate

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation 2. set up a backup

backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation 2. set up a backup script to back up changes either

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:33 +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > > with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. > > Wh

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 > > Polytropon wrote: > > > >> doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > >> keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > >> with

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon wrote: doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. Why? Because it contains the part

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. Why? ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread krad
TB-sized disk. If you want to avoid > this, doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. > > If cloning is just a "do once" action, even pa

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Polytropon
s with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. If cloning is just a "do once" action, even partitioning the target disk manually is a matter of seconds. If you're goin

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread krad
2009/9/28 Polytropon > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's > their main purpose. > > > > > Clonezilla does a nic

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's their main purpose. > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) > an

Re: Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread utisoft
On 28 Sep 2009 15:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone an

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. > > Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and > restore. Of course, the key is fast. > > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS&#x

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Chris wrote: Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla uses ntfsclone or partimage, both programs that have built-in knowledge of specific

Disk Cloning

2009-09-27 Thread Chris
Greetings, Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) and that takes forever (at least when cl

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread james
>> Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB >> available. >> >> I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed >> that I need. >> >> I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being >> that they all have various Disk sizes an

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Grant Peel wrote: > Thanks Sir! > > > What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. > > Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of > SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. > > Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should > not see any fstab prob

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. bsdlabel -B disk (or disks1 and fdisk -B disk if you use MBR partitions at all). Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. this is no difference Can I assume the the da

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces (i.e.

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Manolis Kiagias" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks. Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 har

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. > > Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB > available. > > I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I > need. > > I am now want

Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-13 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Well Here I use K9copy... it copies a 7.6Gb dvd into a 4.2Gb dvd+r and works like a charm very cool for example I have all the Corrs dvds (I bought the 5 ones...) but I use the copies to play... Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-13 Thread Polytropon
Hi and thanks for your reply. On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:18:23 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: > Your not going to find a tool like this under FreeBSD or any > freeOS that I know of. So I may conclude: There is no tool x for the following equation: cdrdao read-cd / writex --

RE: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org]on Behalf Of Polytropon > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 7:48 AM > To: Andrew Gould > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: DVD cloning tool > > &

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thought readcd (out of cdrtools) also knew how to read DVD? at least some time ago i tried - it doesn't read ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:45:52PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Agree that dd is good for simple CDs and DVDs but can't say that I know > >it will behave on multi-session or multi-format discs. > > the question was about DVD. dvd are not produced multisession or > multiformat. The above

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Agree that dd is good for simple CDs and DVDs but can't say that I know it will behave on multi-session or multi-format discs. the question was about DVD. dvd are not produced multisession or multiformat. and when copying multisession data DVD, it's much better to copy off all files, possib

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:18:01PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Thanks, dd is a good suggestion for ISO data. But what I need > > once again please do > man dd > > dd reads sector by sector. > > it won't work only for audio-sectors on CD , on DVD movies are stored > using "normal" 2K se

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 16:11:12 Polytropon wrote: > So far I've used growisofs to record pre-mastered ISO > file systems, but I don't want to make it that complicated > (mound source DVD, mkisofs, growisofs / burn this ISO > to destination DVD) if it can be avoided. It's not > neccessary to pe

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks, dd is a good suggestion for ISO data. But what I need once again please do man dd dd reads sector by sector. it won't work only for audio-sectors on CD , on DVD movies are stored using "normal" 2K sectors ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:42:58 -0600, "Andrew Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your CD or DVD is loaded (not mounted) at /dev/cd0, the following command > will create an iso image in the current directory: > > dd if=/dev/cd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048 > > If you want an easy process, you can

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dd if=/dev/cd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048 bs=64k or more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It would be great if the program would have a good error tolerance for slightly defective media (which is a usual problem with cheap DVDs). I've always used cdrdao read-cd and afterwards c

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy > a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It > would be great if the program would have a good error > tolerance for slightly defective media (which i

DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
Hi! I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It would be great if the program would have a good error tolerance for slightly defective media (which is a usual problem with cheap DVDs). I've always used cdrdao read-cd and afterward

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:50:41 am Julien Cigar wrote: > Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after > replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ? > Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ? There is no way to resize a gmirror provider without cre

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Cowart
disk in raid 1 config? Is > this possible or is it better to switch back from RAID 1 to single disk > system and then do cloning with dump/restore (or dd) and then make RAID > 1 again? I use a variation of this guide[1] when I'm setting up gmirror. The last time I increased the size of t

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Julien Cigar
Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ? Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ? Thanks On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> My situation: I have a server with

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1 config? Is gmirror remove

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Voras
the main hard disk in raid 1 config? Is > this possible or is it better to switch back from RAID 1 to single disk > system and then do cloning with dump/restore (or dd) and then make RAID > 1 again? You'll need to dump/restore (not dd) from an old drive to a new one. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-24 Thread Sasa Stupar
hard disk in raid 1 config? Is this possible or is it better to switch back from RAID 1 to single disk system and then do cloning with dump/restore (or dd) and then make RAID 1 again? Regards, Sasa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
FreeBSD-Utah skrev: I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with selec

Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with selected ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact duplicate of “System A” on “Syste

Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-27 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 22:43:31 FreeBSD-Utah wrote: > I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD > installation / system. > > This environment will have two identical / separate > systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” > > - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” > -

Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-27 Thread FreeBSD-Utah
I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with selected ports and custom app

Re: Cloning a Windows Xp single hard drive to RAID 0 array

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
system by installing two (2) SATA 320 GB drives in RAID > > configuration. I have read the info on your web site about cloning a > > hard drive to RAID configuration by using Acronis True Image software. > > This article is silent on the matter of getting RAID and SCSI driver

Re: Cloning a Windows Xp single hard drive to RAID 0 array

2007-10-21 Thread Jonathan Horne
ead the info on your web site about cloning a > hard drive to RAID configuration by using Acronis True Image software. > This article is silent on the matter of getting RAID and SCSI drivers > for Windows XP to use. > > My question is: How is the F6 requirement for loading RAID and SCS

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