Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:32:58 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Corey G." <ctgaff@telocity.com> Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko <neve_ripe@yahoo.com>, lists <lists@lists.grot.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing onto a new drive from a running system Message-ID: <200102230133.f1N1XL865263@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:10:20 CST." <20010222191020.A51735@telocity.com>
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In message <20010222191020.A51735@telocity.com>, "Corey G." writes: > I successfully did a dupe of my running FreeBSD 4.2 system using the > following method just a few weeks ago. My goal was to keep it as simple > as possible. I use pull out drives which makes this method even easier > for myself. > > 1. installed the second drive as a slave > 2. created partitions and labeled partitions using sysinstall from the > running system > 3. mounted each partition from the slave drive one at a time to /mnt > 4. used "rsync -avp /source/ /mnt" as my copy method for each FS > > When I was done I simply switched my master and slave drive and > rebooted. Everything worked without a single modification. > > Rsync was my choice, maybe not the fastest in this situation but it > worked. Rsync will work (I use it myself), however it does not preserve any schg flags. dump 0f - / | (cd /target && restore xf -) will preserve schg. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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