Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive


--- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter <petermatulis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As long as the "new" slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't
matter to dump|restore .... <?>

Right :) It also allows restoring in a different partition layout.

Any chance of there being a way like this to restore to windows
systems
from the FreeBSD box?

Not really. I'm far from being a Windows expert though, so YMMV.

As an image? Look up partimage and partimaged. We've had some luck
restoring from both a Linux system running the Partimaged daemon and
booting from a Linux disk and restoring images off a samba/Windows
share using partimage.

I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite
confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering
about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to
contain the image. It needs to be exactly the same size (sectors) as the
image. That's what I'm worried about. Any suggestions?







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