From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 22:12:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B73216A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:12:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13B243D1D for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:12:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5AMCH3d098620; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j5AMCH8i098617; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Tony Shadwick In-Reply-To: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> Message-ID: <20050610160943.T98548@wonkity.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:12:19 -0000 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