On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
> Anyone know of an easy to make and restore disk images on peasea hardware?
> I've got a few on-topic boxes that I want to use for projects, but I also
> don't want to blow away the existing software as some of it is interesting
> and hard-to-replace. Bonus points if the image is browsable after moving
> but it must be able to restore to an identical state from basically the bare
> metal. What I'm thinking of is a NetBSD boot disk with enough software in
> the ramdisk to dd an image onto and off of an NFS mount, but before I start
> in on it I was wondering if anyone else had a solution.
Uhm, do you mean hard drives? And on what type of machine? If they're
SCSI or ATA (IDE), I'd recommend just throwing the drive onto some other
machine, and using that machine to dd it off to a file or another raw
drive.
Or, you might want to just pull the drive and replace it with another one
you feel safe blasting the data to /dev/null...
Pat
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Received on Sun Mar 02 2003 - 19:16:00 GMT