Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:47:56 -0700 From: Sarath ER <sarath@linuxtechs.net> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning Message-ID: <42A9EE6C.2010906@linuxtechs.net> In-Reply-To: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com>
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This is how I do it on linux.. Correct me if I am wrong. rsync -vrplogDtH /* /new chroot and edit the fstab etc I do not know how to fix the bootrecord in freebsd, please find howto. boot from the array lets hope this helps. - Sarath Tony Shadwick wrote: > Here's my scenario: > > I have a system that we are running in production that there was an > oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I > believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct > this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files > that we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. > > There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take > care of this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that > takes the filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING > important, and then bless the boot volume. > > Is there anything similar I can do on FreeBSD? My boss thinks I > should be able to tar up the entire filesystem, create the raid array, > and untar the whole thing on the new array. I seem to think this will > fail due to block devices that have changed, fstab entries that have > changed (though this is correctable), and symlinks that don't nicely > come across. > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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