Re: Does Symantec Ghost 7.5 work with BSD?

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Steve Brown wrote:
> 
> OBSD includes something that can clone a disk? Please tell me more! :-)
> 
> Thanks, Steve

dd could do it for identical drive layouts.

dump/restore can do it for non-identical disk layouts.  This is pretty
slick, boot from floppy, fdisk, disklabel and newfs, then restore,
installboot, reboot.

   http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#14.9

A few steps, yes, but quick and easy if you have a tape drive in the
system (or even just a HD which use used as a storage place for the
dump file), and you do have a tape drive.  Right?? 8-)  All the tools
are on the standard boot disk/CDROM.  You could even put the dump file
on a CDR with the CD boot image...

IF Ghost works (and I suspect it would, just like it handles
maintenance partitions or Netware partitions), it would be likely to
only do a blind copy of the partition -- i.e., if you have a 20G drive
with 500M of data on it, you will probably get a 20G image which would
not be rescaled for different size drives, which is just what dd would
do.  Most of the disk imaging programs I have seen just treat unknown
partitions as big blocks of disk space and don't worry about the
contents.  This works, but doesn't accomplish what people often wish
to accomplish with Ghost (have a "small" image file to toss to any of
a number of different sized drives).

Nick.