Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD Sorry for the tardiness of my reply (see

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Vincent Poy
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-04 Thread Vincent Poy
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD On Wed, 3 Sep 2003

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
use g4u to make a copy of your HD to a local ftp server off your original drive. You can then restore it that way too. i.e you dont need both drives in at the same time. ---Mike At 10:56 AM 30/08/2003 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: I have a question regarding this as well. Let's

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
g4u doesn't work too well as I don't have another ftp server locally other then the FreeBSD machine itself. I already figured out how to do it and a better way that can be done via cron automatically... 12.3.1 Using sysinstall(8) Navigating Sysinstall You may use /stand/sysinstall to

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt/var /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:12:25PM + or thereabouts, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt/var /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:27:03PM + or thereabouts, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: SNIP Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that restored partition as /? Edit /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
: Ghost for FreeBSD cd /mnt/root /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- cd /mnt/var /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- cd /mnt/usr /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How does creating a /mnt/root

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: SNIP Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that restored partition as /? Edit /etc/fstab to effect the

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Vincent Poy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-31 Thread Stefan Malte Schumacher
See http://www.partimage.org. There are a few bootable Linux CDs that include partimage; I've used the ~40M Gentoo one very successfully on FAT32 partitions. Thanks a lot to you and the others who have replied for the advice - this seems to be what I have been looking for. Bye Stefan

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-31 Thread T Kellers
I can't contact www.partimage.org, the connection times out. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Saturday 30 August 2003 23:14, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: See http://www.partimage.org. There are a few bootable Linux CDs that include partimage; I've used the ~40M Gentoo one very successfully on

Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread Stefan Malte Schumacher
Hi Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then distribute the images around different computers on the network. I would like

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, take a look at g4u/ It works really well http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ ---Mike At 03:02 PM 30/08/2003 +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: Hi Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
Sorry, didnt mean to hit send so quickly. What I meant to say is that g4u will do what you want. Also, take a look at just plain old dump and restore. If you want to have an image of what is on your partition as well as have incremental backups it works really well too. ---Mike At

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then distribute the images

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread James C. Durham
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:02 pm, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: Hi Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-08-30 Thread Vincent Poy
I have a question regarding this as well. Let's say that my FreeBSD is running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook with a Fujitsu 2.5 4200rpm 60GB HD which has 116280 cylinders/16 heads/63 sectors per track/ 512 bytes per sector. I just recently bought a Hitachi TravelStar 7K60 7200rpm 60GB