From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 08:03:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191F01065676 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:03:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndhert@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C6A8FC19 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so449146eyf.9 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:03:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=C2kYT6p7MNc02sJsug7BETyYluJB5JEtej2mtObhTc8=; b=t6lOUkUurlhR/if0xZ+QUXdf5bQruyULIiZ2VSgbfbYICUV6huxKtLh4kH8xU9iMeh IKczwomZ1jEB+v+Okc67af5A9P5+0zdijM5yapJ0ot+bCG6/4HaTkffzaoIgQKozB9YA cEw5Tan/4FyyohuXiDfnxh218uc8re0ytPnjc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Lofx9Xd/PeOj8wNe/FSA+Tdne9xNrK8h/Odo509iapUb9tGP9ED3BFLRTbzM0bdopS SqC162pLej7euC9IKqu20gNzpWmGpl20F3+/kU5rP/eKbxVGyg2JCVtKDQCKeAm+GLPR +K97PT8Ne+OtRk1X0xyOt8MwVtKVt2icTdp4Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.86.139 with SMTP id w11mr782269wee.10.1261037030748; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:03:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:03:50 +0100 Message-ID: <8021a2660912170003t3e01f4ean396908745c411740@mail.gmail.com> From: n dhert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: snapshot rsync dump/restore 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: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:03:52 -0000 I want to clone a FreeBSD system on another system. Say, Mondaymorning I use the dump(8) to make dumpfiles of all filesystems (dumpofroot.dmp, dumpofvar.dmp, ...tmp.dmp, ...usr.dmp, ...home.dmp ) on an external USB disk. The original system keeps running. Then Wednesday I setup FreeBSD on the new system, and use restore(8) to put the contents of my dumpfiles in the filesystems of that clone system. Then I still need to have the changes occured during Mondaymorning till Wednesdayafternoon on the original system, to be put in some way on the clone system, so that these are not lost. I was told one could do this using rsync and by using a snapshot it would even be faster (?) Is rsync save regarding soft-links ? How exactly would one best proceed?