Data transfer from one HD to another

[Clint Olsen]

On Mar 26, Remo Lacho wrote:
> dump and restore are your friends.
> 
> Try something like this for each new slice (partition):
> 
> Create your new slice on the new disk.
> 
> newfs the new slice - newfs -U /dev/[new_slice]
> 
> mount the new slices - mount /dev/[new_slice] /mnt  
> 
> dump and restore from the old slice to the new slice -
> 	dump -L -0 -f- /[old_slice] | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-)

If you want to ensure that the system is quiescent before doing the copy,
you should actually boot from an alternative media and do the copy using
those utilities.  I actually needed to do this for Windows XP and I was too
cheap to pay for any of the commercial software, so I used g4u:

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u

It's based on NetBSD and worked great for my Windows PC.  I was cloning
from a smaller to larger HD, so I had to use another utility to extend the
partitions without formatting.

Good luck,

-Clint