Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:43:39 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Clone a FBSD system with something in the likes of ghost Message-ID: <CAHieY7TSESodQXBLoZkkBGWZaCbEZessqiMvzp9dR8Y1CoAZtw@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings fellow daemons, I have a beautiful running server (dozens of jails and intricate configuration) on a single small and aging hard drive. I bought 2 new hard drives and want to migrate to a ZFS mirror. Pardon my ignorance but would there be a way to just copy my system from the old drive to the new ZFS array? I was thinking of something like this: 1) install the two new drives in the server and boot with old drive via an USB enclosure. 2) Create a booteable ZFS array and somehow copy an identical image of my current system onto the array. Am I dreaming or are there actual ways of doing this? I really don't want to re-install and configure everything. Just want to move an identical copy of my system to the new hard drives on a ZFS mirror. Any ideas greatly appreciated! TIA, Alejandro Imass
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