From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 12:34:14 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 EB8FD16A401 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A4113C457 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 41141 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2007 12:07:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.134.49 with login) by smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2007 12:07:33 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: umAZaBUVM1l3jiu6doMutjBEaD.mnA9dmEAtL7um6AHaCAKxShvj9yKi5NlofTyTVgX.Ckk2WL8pA8uG2pOQvLmcLlDYeZpNMQogJe8KXsEdkAFAbQG_W.X4sWpgDzozu_XxZu2bv.9NvsQ- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856CBB875; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aYkRVb4P1+3K; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45700B87C; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <461CCF82.5060206@mikestammer.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:07:30 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us References: <461CCCDF.4070307@seclark.us> In-Reply-To: <461CCCDF.4070307@seclark.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: create archive of system X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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 12:34:15 -0000 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