From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 5:21:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E9814D44 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA25159; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:18:28 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA04678; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:15:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA15131; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:01:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA26976; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:05:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <375BB6F9.5967D700@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:11:37 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincent Poy Cc: Doug White , Geoffrey Robinson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring a system References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------158FB5BD3866D9B6CC54E4F3" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------158FB5BD3866D9B6CC54E4F3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From what I've done this week-end : * use /stand/sysinstall to write a first disklabel on the partitions of the new disks * use disklabel -e on the new partitions to be sliced (along with a disklabel on the existing partitions to have a hinyt on sizes) * then use newfs on the newly created slices (a, b, e, f, ...) * (mount the new slices on /mnt) * then dump -0 -f - (filesystem) | (cd /mnt ; restore -f -) rm /mnt/restorsymtable that's it (beware of the contents of the /etc : the operations above have built an exact clone of the original disks - you may have to change at least the IP address) TfH Vincent Poy wrote: > > Speaking about restoring a system, what is the easiest way of > moving everything from one machine to another? > > Cheers, > Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------158FB5BD3866D9B6CC54E4F3 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="thierry.herbelot.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thierry Herbelot Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thierry.herbelot.vcf" begin:vcard n:Herbelot;Thierry tel;work:(+33) 1 46 52 47 23 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot org:CIT Nanterre adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr x-mozilla-cpt:;-22032 fn:Thierry Herbelot end:vcard --------------158FB5BD3866D9B6CC54E4F3-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message