Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:38:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Quinn <letter2steve@yahoo.com> To: kosmos@host.sk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations Message-ID: <20050714163827.17694.qmail@web51410.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050714151206.M56840@host.sk>
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Peter Macko wrote > Hi all, > > I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to > clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. > I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies the MBR > and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies > data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is > edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." > > Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? > > Thanks a lot, > Peter Macko Hi Peter I use G4U from http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ quite a bit for backup's and cloning It's very easy to setup and use If you choose to go with G4U, take note of the advantages of "Zeroing" out unused blocks as it makes a HUGE difference in backup file size I talk about this in sickening detail on this page :-) http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html#22 I hope this helps Namaste Steve Quinn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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