Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:38:57 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clone a drive, no raid involved Message-ID: <485AB5D1.50004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1213903395.00086544.1213891805@10.7.7.3> References: <1213903395.00086544.1213891805@10.7.7.3>
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Brad Mettee wrote: > I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and > completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is > secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are > low volume/loads. > > It looks like I can use DD to copy an entire drive, but it's a 500G > drive and that's going to take a really long time (especially since it's > brand new with no data besides base OS). > > My question: Is there a better way to duplicate a drive including boot > info? Partition second drive (I usually prefer sysinstall which also installs loaders), mount it and use dump/restore: cd /mnt dump -aLf - -C32 / | restore -rf - -- Alexander Motin
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