From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 16:35:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B61816A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:35:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DBD43D49 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:35:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C87758BA; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99726-08; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48EB258C8; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427D058C7; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: <20050613093453.R463@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com> <42AA1653.4040500@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system cloning 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: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:35:54 -0000 >> 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