What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?
Xn Nooby
xnooby at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 20:18:49 UTC 2011
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 backup was 7.5GB. There
is a lot of good info in this thread, so I will be experimenting with
the various methods discussed. It sounds like I really need to learn
about dump/restore.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> 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 partitions?
>
> Since my T42 is handy, I'm testing the latest clonezilla-1.2.7-11-i686 image
> on it, PXE-booted. It shows this sliced/partitioned disk as
>
> Clonezilla FreeBSD
> ---------- -------
> sda (60.0GB...
> sda1 (60.0GB_ufs... /
> sda5 (ufs... /
> sda6 ((In_HTS... swap
> sda7 (ufs... /var
> sda8 (ufs... /tmp
> sda9 (ufs... /usr
>
> "savedisk" will back up all of these from sda1 onwards, so there will be two
> copies of / (sda1 and sda5). Same size but different md5s, no idea what's
> going on there.
>
> In the "saveparts" menu, the appropriate partitions can be picked by just
> choosing all the ones showing ufs in the first part of the description, but
> Clonezilla will only restore them to existing partitions. "restoredisk"
> doesn't recognize a backup directory created with saveparts.
>
> Using a VirtualBox system with a 62G disk, Clonezilla restored all the
> partitions and the boot block. The restored system boots and seems fine.
> It really ought to be verified with mtree checksums or something similar.
>
> There are Clonezilla mailing lists, and anyone who wants to use it with
> FreeBSD or other UFS filesystems should join. (I don't generally use
> Clonezilla for FreeBSD, and my project list is already too long, so I
> haven't, but still...)
>
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