Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:30:17 -0800, "Robison, Dave" wrote: > I like bacula, I've used it for years. > > I also like this command Julian once taught me: > > find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here ^^ Directory. UNIX doesn't have "folder

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
I like bacula, I've used it for years. I also like this command Julian once taught me: find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here On 02/17/11 18:25, Xn Nooby wrote: Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out your other articles too. Thanks! On Thu, Feb 17

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out your other articles too. Thanks! On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: > >> I downloaded the "alternative testing" ubuntu-based version of >> Clonezilla, and it appeared to

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: I downloaded the "alternative testing" ubuntu-based version of Clonezilla, and it appeared to backup my FreeBSD machine. It identified my filesystem as UFS. I will wipe the drive and try a restore later tonight. It said it was backing up 30GB of files, whi

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:47 -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > It sounds like I really need to learn > about dump/restore. You should - it's fundamental UNIX basic knowledge. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-16 Thread Xn Nooby
I downloaded the "alternative testing" ubuntu-based version of Clonezilla, and it appeared to backup my FreeBSD machine. It identified my filesystem as UFS. I will wipe the drive and try a restore later tonight. It said it was backing up 30GB of files, which seemed odd for a fresh install. The

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I tried a version of Clonezilla that understood ufs and it was really fast copying a slice: It did not understand disklabels and copied only the a partition pretending that it did the entire slice. Did you try to copy a slice with multiple part

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1T

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then delete them, o

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzi

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Feb 15 11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:53:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and > > it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). > > > > On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with ze

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:53:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and > it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). > > On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then > delete them, on each partiton,

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Xn Nooby wrote: Is there an image-copy backup program that understands the UFS file-system? Or perhaps there is a better solution on FreeBSD? Perhaps I do not understand what you are trying to do, but dump and restore are the only sort-of bulletproof way to backup (copy, c

What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-14 Thread Xn Nooby
On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the entire drive. I like to make i