Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:55:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning Message-ID: <20050610235524.GC787@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050610164137.U78603@mail.goinet.com> References: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC220445A5CA@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <20050610164137.U78603@mail.goinet.com>
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On 2005-06-10 16:41, Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> wrote: > Nope, everything is from ports. was just trying to avoide the 2+ days > of compiling needed to rebuild everything. :( Shutdown the system, install a new disk (or RAID of disks) and then move over the data, as described in the following blog post of mine: http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/2004-10-26/daemonizing-a-new-disk I used the process described in this post to move over an already installed FreeBSD system from a 45 GB disk to a new 200 GB disk, back in October. Following this mini-guide, you won't need to rebuild anything at all. ( Mental note to self: This question comes up so often that I should probably convert the blog post to an article and commit it to the doc/ tree :-/ ) - Giorgos
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