From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Dec 11 01:04:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F599D7E7E for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (n4rky-1-pt.tunnel.tserv29.fmt1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:66:119::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3D141EF2 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 80) id AD01059792CE; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 50-250-218-172-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (50-250-218-172-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.250.218.172]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:04:35 -0800 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:04:35 -0800 Message-ID: <20151210170435.Horde.Nx90DIB75H8kiNGSzfgBXol@mail.parts-unknown.org> From: David Benfell To: Charles Swiger Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration References: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org> <8D80BCFB-74EF-447F-8850-88544668BDCA@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <8D80BCFB-74EF-447F-8850-88544668BDCA@mac.com> User-Agent: Horde Application Framework 5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_oTHZWyZ4FCU5P_0udx69a6j"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:04:36 -0000 This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_oTHZWyZ4FCU5P_0udx69a6j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Charles Swiger : > On Dec 10, 2015, at 1:22 PM, David Benfell wr= ote: > [ ... ] >> Because there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'd basically like to=20=20 >>=20preserve the existing configuration. That includes ports and the=20=20 >>=20build options. Has anyone come up with a neat procedure for doing=20= =20 >>=20this? > > 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=20=20 versus=20ZFS? Second, who has a sane backup method for a 500 GB disk that will put=20=20 all=20the boot stuff in all the right places on a restore? Particularly=20= =20 when=20the bootloader is a different bootloader for UEFI on UFS than=20=20 Grub=20for ZFS? --=20 David=20Benfell --=_oTHZWyZ4FCU5P_0udx69a6j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: PGP Digital Signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --=_oTHZWyZ4FCU5P_0udx69a6j--