Re: image of a harddrive

[Nicholas Brawn <nickbrawn@onetel.com>]

I can report that yesterday, I successfully used Norton Ghost 6.0 to image an 
existing OpenBSD system to another hard disk in the same system (i386). Both 
hard disks were the same make and size.

I did not have to specify a 'raw dump' however. The only extra option I set 
was the duplicate disk (or something similar, I forget the actual option -- 
it related to copying bootsectors, partitions/etc).

Cheers,
Nick 

On Wednesday 28 February 2001 23:54, you wrote:
> Several months ago I read a thread on this misc list here in OBSD that one
> can use ghost with OBSD partitions.  The catch is, because ghost doesn't
> understand the file system 4.2bsd, that one must use a raw dump of the
> partition and one can only put that image back to the exact type of drive,
> ie. if cloned from a WD32200 you must put it back to a WD32200.
>
> cameron charlebois wrote:
> >      I have an OpenBSD box and a RH 7.0 box running on my LAN. I want to
> > rebuild the OpenBSD, but I want to have a fail safe incase I botch it and
> > need the box back in a hurry. So I thought just do a "dd" of the entire
> > drive and dump the resulting image to the RH 7.0 box. The OpenBSD HD is
> > only 500MB and the RH7.0 has tons of space, (>15gig free).
> >      If I do a "dd if=/dev/wd0a of=<need to reference the RH box here>" I
> > get /dev/wdoa is busy. I thought I should boot off of a floppy and do the
> > dd but the question is how do I reference the RH box to dump the image
> > there? The RH box is a fileserver that has Samba running, (no nfs but
> > there is samba).
> >      Any help would rock!
> >
> > -Cam
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