Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:19:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: mjones@mco.net (Mark Jones) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup Message-ID: <199904011619.KAA00829@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <00a301be7c57$157a7b20$96baa7d1@zigzag.london.skyscape.net> from Mark Jones at "Apr 1, 99 10:48:23 am"
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In a previous message, Mark Jones said: > I have multiple freebsd systems here. I would like to put a new hard drive > into the system copy all files on to the new harddrive remove it and be able > to put it into a new system and have it boot up identical to the original > system. I have tried this and it has a problem on boot after the fsck when > it trys to mount / as rw. It says that device is not as currently mounted. > > What should I do to accomplish this task? I do this all the time. Did you use dump/restore to accomplish this? Basically the steps are: disklabel <newdisk> newfs <newdisk partitions> fsck <newdisk partitions> mount /dev/<newdisk partition a> /mnt cd /mnt dump 0f / |restore -rf - rm /mnt/restoresymtable repeat for other partitions. move disk to new machine, changing SCSI ID or IDE master/slave. -- MicroEmacs vs GNU Emacs: M-X enter-nuclear-reactor-control-mode isn't there, but I never used it much anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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