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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