Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:14:31 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clone a FBSD system with something in the likes of ghost Message-ID: <57EC9527.7020202@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHieY7TSESodQXBLoZkkBGWZaCbEZessqiMvzp9dR8Y1CoAZtw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHieY7TSESodQXBLoZkkBGWZaCbEZessqiMvzp9dR8Y1CoAZtw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/28/2016 10:43 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > 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. The canonical - and correct - method involves dump piped to restore; there may be an example in the Handbook. Respectfully, Robert Huff
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