Ghost for FreeBSD

[Mike Tancsa]

use g4u to make a copy of your HD to a local ftp server off your original 
drive. You can then restore it that way too.  i.e you dont need both drives 
in at the same time.

         ---Mike

At 10:56 AM 30/08/2003 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
>         I have a question regarding this as well.  Let's say that my
>FreeBSD is running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook with a Fujitsu 2.5"
>4200rpm 60GB HD which has 116280 cylinders/16 heads/63 sectors per track/
>512 bytes per sector.  I just recently bought a Hitachi TravelStar 7K60
>7200rpm 60GB HD which has 116280 cylinders/16 heads/63 sectors per
>track, 512 bytes per sector but the problem is I can't use g4u as I have
>to remove the FDD from the bay to add the 2nd HDD to the system.  So this
>appears that both drives are 100% identical in size and parameters.  What
>do I need to do to completely copy the entire drive from the old drive to
>the new drive under FreeBSD?  Thanks.
>
>
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>On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry, didnt mean to hit send so quickly.  What I meant to say is that g4u
> > will do what you want.  Also, take a look at just plain old dump and
> > restore.  If you want to have an image of what is on your partition as well
> > as have incremental backups it works really well too.
> >
> >          ---Mike
> >
> > At 10:29 AM 30/08/2003 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >take a look at g4u/ It works really well
> > >
> > >http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
> > >
> > >         ---Mike
> > >
> > >At 03:02 PM 30/08/2003 +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi
> > >>
> > >>Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
> > >>simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and
> > >>use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then
> > >>distribute the images around different computers on the network. I would
> > >>like to be able to something like this with FreeBSD. I have had a look at
> > >>Ghost 4 Unix but this is mainly oriented towards deploying images via the
> > >>network while I just want to store the files locally. The advantage 
> of Ghost
> > >>and Ghost4Unix is that is is very easy to restore the system even if 
> it so
> > >>messed up that it wont boot. How can I do this ?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Bye
> > >>Stefan
> > >>
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