Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-11 Thread Warren Block
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

copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread David Banning
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

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: David Banning david+dated+1308165107.fdb...@skytracker.ca To: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 3:11:46 PM Subject: copying hard drives I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei Brezan
On 10/06/2011 21:11, 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

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, David Banning wrote: 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 - Won't reliably leave you with an operable system. Use dump and restore -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Modulok
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. Use dd to make a sector-for-sector level