Success with Symantec Ghost 7

[Gilad Rom]

Stephen Hoover wrote:
> I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time
> to time.
> 
> I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my
> current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop
> with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a
> sector copy on each individual harddrive.
> 
> All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one
> I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and
> work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the
> harddrives were slightly bigger.
> 
> Just thought this was some good information for the list.
> 
> Stephen Hoover
> Dallas, Texas
> 
> 
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Just out of curiousity - How long does it take for ghost to
replicate the disk?

I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks
(2x20GB, EIDE, UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes.

Gilad.