migrate FreeBSD partitions

[ccc]

Hi

I'd like to migrate freeBSD FreeBSD partitions to a bigger hard disk. I put a second hard disk into a PC, mount new partitions from the second disk, but how to copy from the command line all files and directories to have the same access rights and permissions?

Perhaps something like:

cp -p -R /* /mnt

 

[Beastie]

dump(8) and restore(8) definitely. Also check this document by Warren Block (wblock@).

 

[ccc]

Thanks, but can I do it using Acronis to backup/restore partitions as well?
Has anyone experience with Acronis and FreeBSD?

 

[Bunyan]

Has anyone experience with Acronis and FreeBSD?

Negative.
Acronis is not able to back up FreeBSD slices/partitions.

 

[wblock@]

If the filesystem is not recognized, some partition copy utilities will copy the entire partition in binary, effectively a dd(1). Of course that wastes space and time. For UFS filesystems, dump/restore is unmatched.

 

[ccc]

Negative.
Acronis is not able to back up FreeBSD slices/partitions.

Why not, I've done now a backup and successfully restored on other hard disk using Acronis Home 2011.