From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 00:58:16 2011 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 18DFB106564A for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:58:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2538FC0C for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so5401787fxe.17 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=hrDG9X3adGzrArN83O32uVZHz6+19MkWOIja8sufvn8=; b=a0BuPfT555OuxA/R+w27QwNayeFQRe9H9PlYDf0g85qwU5HTvgqvaMwuc/U1T+feDG 5S/YC5V7KeBIBMH0MvOUbGp3GndQjy+9KouICPjc6dWPKeV8X3nUIxs6laAml051hxHJ 0wiYmcdQ1HBa1DU9t29MQjr+5oZ5tmwL4z1ks= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.145.2 with SMTP id b2mr4437112fav.99.1311469094387; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.1.132 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:58:14 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: krad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Aryeh Friedman , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: best way to replicate system 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: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:58:16 -0000 On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad wrote: > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman 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)). -- --