Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:58:14 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best way to replicate system Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqFjw_sM07TD4MLjbTj26mESgECoAzZrkDL31rf10EFRA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALfReye=7tbqCLn6chq9MRxU9DNzLcYpU7hK=-JRn-r6URe8jQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaX=2Ckrwpn3ZUSpA=OuxT=ypKA%2BZ0t_trUtc7aUpACH1_w@mail.gmail.com> <CALfReye=7tbqCLn6chq9MRxU9DNzLcYpU7hK=-JRn-r6URe8jQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be >> duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... >> none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be >> a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is >> "make release" or make a diskimage and dd it > > A quick and dirty way is to get a working freebsd on a usb stick or cdrom, > run a script that slices up the disks, newfs, and mounts them then rsyncs > all the files across from the original server. Ive used this method many > times for doing backup restores. Yes, rsync with --rsh="ssh -C" (unless you're just transferring already compressed data (*.jpg, *.avi, *.tar.gz, etc)). -- --
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