From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 10:31:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA02072 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:31:32 -0800 Received: from pdx1.i.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA02066 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:31:30 -0800 Received: from merix.merix.com (merix.com [198.145.172.40]) by pdx1.i.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA06317 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:31:21 -0800 Received: from sandy.merix.com by merix.merix.com (4.1/1.1) id AA11978; Mon, 20 Mar 95 10:30:54 PST Received: by sandy.merix.com (4.1/8.0) id AA09980; Mon, 20 Mar 95 10:30:32 PST Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 10:30:32 PST From: troyc@sandy.merix.com (Troy Curtiss) Message-Id: <9503201830.AA09980@sandy.merix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Cloning a 1.1.5.1 system Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have two identical pieces of Hardware: AST 486DX50, 815MB HD, 8 MB Ram ... Machine #1 is the production system right now, and I would like to make machine #2 an exact duplicate for redundancy. Both HD's are partitioned the same. How do I make machine #2 a clone of machine #1. I have tried the back-to-back tar solution, and it doesn't work (everything gets owned by root, and permissions get messed up). Dump looks like what I need, but it doesn't seem to want to work either!! Can someone give me a method to actually do this. I need a clone... meaning all user accounts, permissions, X11, everything are identical. HELP... -Troy