Help on Disk Cloning/Ghosting/imaging...

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:35:48AM -0500, lazaax - wrote:
> 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.

Clarification: if /dev/disk is a hard disk (which is implied), the
resulting file will NOT be an ISO.  It will be a raw hard disk image.

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