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Subject: Re: create archive of system
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:56:15 +0200, Stephen Clark  
<Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask this. What is the  
> best way to create an
> archive of a FreeBSD system so yoy can take it to another computer and  
> unarchive and
> have a runnable system, assuming the other systems disk had already been  
> formatted
> with the appropriate filesystems. In other words I want to move all the  
> files and have them
> keep all their attributes, permissions, ownership, chflags etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>

The list freebsd-questions is a better place for this question I think.
But you can use dump/restore or tar. There are a lot of examples out there  
on the internet.

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop
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