Help on Disk Cloning/Ghosting/imaging...

[lazaax -]

2008/4/23 Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com>:
> On 4/23/08, chilo <olihc17 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >                                                                                                                 How can I reproduce my system to another box with the same configuration?
>  >
>  >  How to create and image if it is using RAID5 with 4x146 SAS drives? isthis possible with RAID5 or can I just image disk by disk (JBOD) willit not affect the contents because it has raid5 technology? and how todo it?
>  >
>  >  Is there a third party software like "Ghost" in Freebsd? if so how to use it?
>  >
>  >  During my search I saw frisbee but I don't know how to use it. There are only limited information on how to use it and I can't understand it cause I'm new at using freebsd.
>  >
>  >  btw I have Freebsd 7 amd64 system.
>  >
>  >  Dual Core Intel XEON processor 5000 1333MHZ
>  >  Intel 5000 chipset family
>  >  1 GB min fully buffered memory
>  >  4 x 146GB SAS drives
>  >  Lan Intel 82563EB dual port controller
>  >  LSI 1068 SAS Contoller
>  >
>  >  I need to have the same configurations on the other servers withoutgoing through the installation stuffs. I believe this is possible but Ido not know how.
>  >
>  >  Advance and many thanks.
>
>  Can you put two LSI 1068 controllers in one system?  If so, install a
>  second controller in your working box, attach 4 hard drives to it,
>  configure the RAID 5, boot up, use 'dump' to do a level 0 dump of the
>  working filesystem to the new drives, take the drives and controller
>  out, and put it in the new system.  Boot up the new system and it
>  should be the same as the other one!
>
>  If you can't put two LSI 1068 controllers in one box this probably
>  will not work.  In this case, you may be able to boot the second box
>  from a live CD, and set up netcat or something to stream a dump from
>  the working box over to the hard drives on the second box via the
>  network.
>
>  -Mark C.
>
>
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hi, i do clone disk with command "dd"  dd if=/dev/disk of=/home/iso.iso
good luck.
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Leon Chavez Colima, Mexico "lazaax"