From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 14:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E1B37B419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.smnolde.com ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16DZHx-000Jyo-00; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:52:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:52:41 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde To: Darryl Hoar Cc: Subject: Re: Copy a running system In-Reply-To: <001401c181bb$58090c60$0701a8c0@darryl> Message-ID: <20011210175057.J11620-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If the hard drives are identical then dd would be the best answer. However, not knowing that I'll refer you to this: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/bigdisk.html This method works well yet does require some attention to the disklabel part. - Scott smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:43:36 -0600 >From: Darryl Hoar >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Copy a running system > >Greetings, >I tediously setup a 4.4-stable box as >a firewall/router, etc. I have it just >the way I want it. I have two other boxes >a little different hardware) and was wondering >if I could copy the setup from my running firewall >to the other two boxes, then just tweak the differences? >This would save a BOATLOAD of time. > >thanks in advance, >Darryl > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message