Previously, prior to FreeBSD 9.0, disk cloning successfully used sysutils/clonehdd.
Unfortunately, the utility does not work with modern GPT partitions..
Has there been a convenient alternative to backup disk, cloning under FreeBSВ, conveniently creating an exact copy of the disk?
Perhaps...
Lets say i dd my whole main nvme disk (where i have installed freebsd) to my 120gbytes usb flash drive
Is it gonna be able to boot ?
Also if i then dd my usb flash drive to my laptops 250gbytes ssd disk am i gonna have a working system ? what about the free space am i gonna be able to add...
Hi,
We've encounter a very critical Dell-r510 server failure, its motherboard got completely damaged and there's no way to boot the machine. Now to make our data online asap, we need to have this data available in other machine but need your instructions for this sensitive migration. Let me...
sysutils/clonehdd does not transfer data (though it does set up and format the disk): FreeBSD 10.2 on Toshiba Z930 notebook using a 2TB memory stick (Kingston USB 2).
I then formatted the stick on a Mac using MSDOS-FAT and used FreeBSD rsync (no cloning, but complete backup).
Note that -o...
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