Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 08:30:51 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy Message-ID: <009f01c440c1$c9091d20$6601a8c0@grant>
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Hi all, I am hopeing someone knowledgeable will read and review my comments below and point out any flaws.... It is time to deploy two more servers, which are en route to use. 2 Dell 750s single SCSI Duel NICS and regular Pent 4 / 512 MB etc etc. I have spent the last year or so developing a server platform that I now want to clone from a production box to the two new boxes. I realize that when I do this I will need to delete alot of things from the new box, but thats OK. I intend to use Dump and Restore to completely copy the OS from the older box to the two new ones. Before I do this, I have three questions: The current (older box) has only a 18 GB SATA drive on it. The two new machines have 36 GB SCSI drives. So my question is, as long as the partitions on the new box are names the same as the old box, and are at least the same size, or bigger, dump and restore should work without problems (?) I will need to install a base OS on the new systems first, so I can partition the drives and be able to connect tot the box, the second question is, when I use restore, will it overwrite the kernel, if so, can I protect the kernel from being overwritten? The third question is, can I, should I, use rsyn insted of dum and restore? Thanks, -Grant
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