Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:10:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best way to replicate system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107210657480.95135@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaX=2Ckrwpn3ZUSpA=OuxT=ypKA%2BZ0t_trUtc7aUpACH1_w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaX=2Ckrwpn3ZUSpA=OuxT=ypKA%2BZ0t_trUtc7aUpACH1_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be > duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... > none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be > a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is > "make release" or make a diskimage and dd it dd works but is not optimal, copying a lot of empty disk space. [1] dump(8) to create filesystem images [1], boot target with mfsBSD [2], set up target disk [3], restore(8) over ssh [1]. 1. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html 2. http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ 3. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
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