From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 01:27:50 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 A2F8A16A41C for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:27:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4571F43D1D for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:27:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 21270 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2005 11:27:49 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Jun 2005 11:27:49 +1000 Message-ID: <42AA3E08.4070400@meijome.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:27:36 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> <20050610140427.H22656@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20050610140427.H22656@wolf.pjkh.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:27:50 -0000 Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Not that I do this a lot, but I think you'll run into problems using > tar, cp, and rsync when it comes to various special files or files with > holes in them (sparse files). rsync should work just fine in archive mode (not sure what u mean by sparse files though) rsync -a >I've always read that dump/restore is the > safest way to do something like this. agreed - should be part of your daily chores anyway (dump I mean) ;) Cheers, Beto