On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's their main purpose. > Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) > and that takes forever (at least when cloning - have not tried a > restore). You haven't tried restoring? You should, it's worth it, because what's the value of a backup that cannot be restored? :-) > Some specs I'm using to compare: A typical restore/save currently with > other OS's using CloneZ takes about 12 minutes with a simple boot from > CD. > > The restored/imaged drive is 400 meg sata. Well, dump + restore isn't known for ultimate performance, but its results are good; dd, on the other hand, is another possible way to go. The advantage of dd is that it can be used with any filesystem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
