Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:54:15 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.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: <CALfReye=7tbqCLn6chq9MRxU9DNzLcYpU7hK=-JRn-r6URe8jQ@mail.gmail.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 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > A quick and dirty way is to get a working freebsd on a usb stick or cdrom, run a script that slices up the disks, newfs, and mounts them then rsyncs all the files across from the original server. Ive used this method many times for doing backup restores.
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