Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:36:23 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Utah <kwl2363@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System Message-ID: <20080228003314.B30403@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200802272347.22581.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <173107.60129.qm@web50301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200802272347.22581.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1082399414-1204155383=:30403 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT >> This environment will have two identical / separate >> systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” >> >> - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” >> - Once that installation is complete with selected >> ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact >> duplicate of “System A” on “System B” >> >> I don’t want to do this with drives in the same >> system, rather I would like to “clone” “System A” run liveCD on system B, make partitions as you like, newfs, mount as needed under say /mnt (like /mnt, /mnt/usr etc), set up network and do cd /mnt rsh -l root IP_of_systemA "tar --one-file-system -cf - / /usr /othermountpoint /anothermointpoint"|tar xpf - cd / umount /mnt make sure you did bsdlabel -B yourfirstdrive on systema activate rshd and add ip of systemb to .rhosts in /root, at least temporarily. keep machines in sync with rsync, prepare your rsync script, exclude list etc etc. --0-1082399414-1204155383=:30403--
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