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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:30 -0500
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        Stephen.Clark@seclark.us
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: create archive of system
Message-ID:  <461CCF82.5060206@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <461CCCDF.4070307@seclark.us>
References:  <461CCCDF.4070307@seclark.us>

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Stephen Clark wrote:
> 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
> 

dump and restore will probably be the most popular opinion for this. 
This is my setup for this:

http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:dumprestore



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