Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:38:57 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copy everythin (/) from one machine to remote machine Message-ID: <20020219163857.J48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <002701c1b991$48ec5990$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:03:38PM -0500 References: <002701c1b991$48ec5990$0d00a8c0@alexus>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:03:38PM -0500, alexus wrote:
> hello
>
> how would I go about making copy of everything that is on one machine to
> another machine?
> considering that both machines are not on same network and not even
> physically close to each other
> and I want to copy everything from one machine / to another with all
> permissions and every thing
> can I do tar everything one machine and untar it on another?
A dump(8)/restore(8) is usually the best way to copy a partition.
# dump -0af - / | ssh remote-machine 'restore -xf -'
Is always fun. Depends on your exact circumstances.
> if it's
> possible, then supposedly it'd solve my situation but how would I make that
> other hard drive bootable?
See fdisk(8) and disklabel(8). Usually something like,
# fdisk -B ad0
# disklabel -B ad0s1
Will do it.
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