> > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: > > At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > > > 23 > > >Jul 02 > > > > > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > > > > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > > >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > > >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > > >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > > >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > > > > > >Regards > > >Markus R Bertel > > > > > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy > > to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). > > What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I > use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1?
How are they normally mounted? Use that or preferably either raid mirroring for a complete mirror or dump/restore for backups. ////jerry > > -- > > Gary Dunn > Open Slate Project > http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ > Honolulu > registered Linux user #273809 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
