On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, David Banning wrote:
I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback.
1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and
store each on portable hard drive as a single file - so that in the
end I have a large, say 2TB drive with a number of peoples operating
system backed up - that can later be restored.
I second using Clonezilla. It doesn't make a single file, but splits
things into 2G files that aren't as unwieldy as larger files. Keep a
copy of the Clonezilla CD or image with the backup.
2. I'd like a simple way to copy - my FreeBSD system to another
drive - a clone so to speak - which I know dd can do - but I wonder
if there is a way to do this so that clone drive can be smaller that
the original. My thinking here is that I need to experiment with
changes but can't do it on a live system - hence the copy booted
from a separate machine.
dd is a brute force copy method that has certain applications. Copying
a FreeBSD disk is better done with dump and restore. I have some notes
on all three of these methods in Backup Options For FreeBSD:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html
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