Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning Message-ID: <20050613093453.R463@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com>
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>> I have a system that we are running in production that there was an >> oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I >> believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct >> this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that >> we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. >> >> There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take care of >> this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the >> filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and >> then bless the boot volume. > > If you want two more identical drives then use dump, not tar, but you'd have > to have them sliced/partitioned up the same beforehand and it wouldn't do > bootblocks. You would? Why? restore doesn't care where you're restoring to... you'd just need to make sure you were in / before restoring and then tweak /etc/fstab to suit... right? -philip
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