From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 17:31:13 2010 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 4D396106564A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:31:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (524948AF.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF36F8FC18 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by westmark.nagual.nl (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 3B9850; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:25:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4C9A3D60.8090204@nagual.nl> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:31:12 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <447149.36059.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <447149.36059.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-AxigenVirus-Level: 1 Subject: Re: migrate system disk 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: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:31:13 -0000 On 22-9-2010 17:06, Dánielisz László wrote: > I have an old HDD which should be replaced soon, actually that HDD stands as my > system disk, what is your suggesion, how should I migrate the FreeBSD 8.1 from > the old disk to the new one? Attach the new disk to your system and do a dump / restore action (man dump/restore for options). The FreeBSD manual has very good examples.