From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 19:21:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [199.86.35.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4837B519 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.8.5/1.1) id VAA21227; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:21:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:21:20 -0500 From: john@dexter.starfire.mn.org (John) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cloning a stand-by? X-Mailer: Mutt 0.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a need to clone a FreeBSD 2.2.7 system which is serving as a firewall. The approach that seems most elegant to me is to use the "fixit" floppy to lay out the harddrive, and then "recover" from a dump stream from the running firewall (on the LAN side, of course!). I'm just not sure that it is practical, with the existing fixit, to attempt that sort of network-based recovery (which is too bad, of course, as network shared tape drives are pretty common). If anyone would care to comment on my approach, or to suggest another, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks! -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message