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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:41:06 +0200
From:      Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To:        Mikael Syska <mikael@syska.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install FreeBSD, and put the disk in a other computer...
Message-ID:  <20051015164105.GA49585@starfury.scode.org>
In-Reply-To: <43512D1F.9050203@syska.dk>
References:  <43512D1F.9050203@syska.dk>

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> Except for system dependent kernel options, are there any thing that I 
> should be aware of?

The logical position of the drive in question might affect the boot
process (e.g., moving the system from a secondary slave position, with
another drive as secondary master, to another system where it is
primary master). Even then I believe there should be no problems
beyond the obvious /etc/fstab issues, though I have seen some weird
stuff happening on at least one machine (with some wacky Dell BIOS).

> And one other question, how does people backup a Maildir structure, 
> tar/gz and just move the fil away from the system?

tar.gz or just copy the directory structure (e.g, using rsync or
rdiff-backup). Part of the nice thing about Maildir is that this is
perfectly safe (part of the not-so-nice thing is that hundreds of
thousands of small files are not the most efficient to back up).

>  afterwards its just 
> hard to find the deleted mail cause the names in Maildir  are odd. I 
> havent found any good answers to this on google

What do you mean by deleted mail? I do not understand how deleted
mails are related to backing up the Maildir.

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