From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 18 18:04:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22313 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22308 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA25702; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:04:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:04:15 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Chan Yiu Wah cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to update the system from the master machine In-Reply-To: <199901180822.QAA17026@b1.hkstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chan Yiu Wah wrote: > Hello, > > I have two system. One is P233 (master) and the other is a dual P90. > How can I update the dual P90 system from the P233 (master) system. > Is there anyone can share your experience with me. Thanks. > > clarence I have used dump and restore to "clone" a running system, but you want to be careful about what you don't want to be identical on the two systems, or, in my case, the two drives. I use rsync to keep it up to date, so the second disk is a backup for the first. This can be used from one host to another. Again, you might not want everything the same. But rsync is quite fast since it only transfers differences. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message