Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:04:35 -0800 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration Message-ID: <20151210170435.Horde.Nx90DIB75H8kiNGSzfgBXol@mail.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <8D80BCFB-74EF-447F-8850-88544668BDCA@mac.com> References: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org> <8D80BCFB-74EF-447F-8850-88544668BDCA@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Quoting Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > On Dec 10, 2015, at 1:22 PM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > [ ... ] >> Because there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'd basically like to >> preserve the existing configuration. That includes ports and the >> build options. Has anyone come up with a neat procedure for doing >> this? > > Certainly: take a backup. To me, this leaves some very important questions unanswered. First, won't there be some differences in the configuration for UFS versus ZFS? Second, who has a sane backup method for a 500 GB disk that will put all the boot stuff in all the right places on a restore? Particularly when the bootloader is a different bootloader for UEFI on UFS than Grub for ZFS? -- David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJWaiEjAAoJEOoml8Ul4D7Wkg0P/2K0/vkqAv2MoBunjaNOf9pS WVbZTMqw+0NfxkG646PscoyvgDDYEWkUXer6TPBscbpA+F6E2uSWuyliUmatvOpr u6MHgO1TF8MppzoAE2Mm0Bl46y6JO14fZlCT3N7kWyqTGDIZN8hPUsx2MQVpRbvT FfWgV7g23pRQp3+f72NP7NxIVJJj4UYmH0qfRVCgRSWGfiqx/dFyHFXMtgL980Cf NFvkGI89yIqnRB2JlLji/NBvyAapzMC3vHgx24h6+mrHjymYXvX7IzilYJgxx3gh bBESgjbi1j7sr68zWxrKCqwUQXtQYWMf0gaRzbEcPjbqsebqdpISlzM75iCaau+V q4qFYVc95z6en63wsaskPrLFb5iNAv3p1eDJZQQIhkas8Sam8H0RdqTnuEIdvU2K yNuePq7WlDRmGBz4lAjrV9okPeDhc4rT3R7gNZHF1GKPNve2AXasqh/YpZwBzLJT 7xjdfkK3wnlqduKP0shGZFg+WSQJjYpB6RA6PxHzy7naXlrJpr3knLNsKOBx8Sc7 222cSQdW0WvHqYtl5G+U2l2Uj/5rtIHpiBj9MSAlDOMGyj9BeFRROi9wSAUvMxg+ F+CsehQAdtZXeqbGMP8NwGI76g5oC2Xp7QvyHeKozXsRzhEt7VwsyIgu2EN0lTn+ STwhO7/WMthLYdtUjlp3 =+jDQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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