From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 23:56:18 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 0A8C916A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:56:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A2543D1F for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:56:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 19190 invoked by uid 207); 10 Jun 2005 23:56:15 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.242):. Processed in 10.331373 secs); 10 Jun 2005 23:56:15 -0000 Received: from dialup242.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.242]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Jun 2005 23:56:04 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5ANtPAX001115; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:55:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5ANtO4h001114; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:55:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:55:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tony Shadwick Message-ID: <20050610235524.GC787@gothmog.gr> References: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC220445A5CA@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <20050610164137.U78603@mail.goinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050610164137.U78603@mail.goinet.com> 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 23:56:18 -0000 On 2005-06-10 16:41, Tony Shadwick 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