Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, 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 In case you have time to work it out and you can live with some small bugs, there is a very promising OpenSource project on http://www.sysresccd.org SystemRescueCD is a bootable CD based on Gentoo-Linux. It can - manage partitions - mirror partitions - set up connections to nfs and samba servers via network - ntfs and ufs support is declared as experimental by the authors but seems to work on my home-network Regards, Uli. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Gilad Rom wrote: I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks (2x20GB, EIDE, UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes. i've used dd to ghost two 36GB scsi hard disks on two separate controllers in about 18 minutes. i used 1024k as my block size. using 10240K as block size slowed it down somewhat, coming in at about 30 minutes. Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7
It took Ghost approximatly 1 hour to copy each 9G hard drive (2 hours total). The Dell has dual PIII 500's in it. Certainly not the fastest solution, but yet another option. Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas - Original Message - From: Gilad Rom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]