From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 11:56:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B29D16A400 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: from smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E8E213C45A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: (qmail 31807 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2007 11:56:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.144.77.243) by smtpauth13.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.37) with ESMTP; 11 Apr 2007 11:56:15 -0000 Message-ID: <461CCCDF.4070307@seclark.us> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:56:15 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: create archive of system X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:56:16 -0000 Hello List, I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask this. What is the best way to create an archive of a FreeBSD system so yoy can take it to another computer and unarchive and have a runnable system, assuming the other systems disk had already been formatted with the appropriate filesystems. In other words I want to move all the files and have them keep all their attributes, permissions, ownership, chflags etc. Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)