Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning Message-ID: <20050610160943.T98548@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com>
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote: > I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight > on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather > than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all > sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that we've tweaked that we > would hate to just start over on it. > > There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take care of > this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the > filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and > then bless the boot volume. Surprisingly, nobody mentioned the FAQ entry yet: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK I usually just do a minimal install on the new disk, then restore onto it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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