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At 09:05 AM 12/19/2007, Nuno Gon=E7alves wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>
>
>I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a
>different Hardware.
>
>I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying =
to
>install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have
>up and running.
>
>I created a Swap Partition, a =93/=94 partition where the minimum system is
>running, and a third partition =93/backup=94 in which I will restore the b=
ackup
>through the network.
>
>Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through
>=93/backup=94.
>
>
>
>Do you guys think this is doable?
>
>I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery
>because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work?
>
>What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ?
>
>Thanks for reading and
>
>Best regards
>
>
>
>Nuno

It depends on your server's partitioning.  The simplest would be to create=
=20
the same file systems like you had on the old server and restore each=20
filesystem.

         -Derek

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