Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:34:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Mulder <gmulder@infotechfl.com> To: "Eli K. Breen" <bsd@unixforge.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Machine Replication Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0507211529180.20573-100000@pigeon.infotechfl.com> In-Reply-To: <42DFF582.1050406@unixforge.net>
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: > All, > > Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a > freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? > > So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: > > dd (Slow, not usefull if the hardware isn't identical?) > tar (Doesn't replicate MBR) > rsync (No MBR support) > Norton Ghost (Doesn't support UFS/UFS2?) > G4U (little experience with this) > Try dump and restore. They seem to be fast and reliable (although not under Linux from all accounts). I usually use "tar" and "disklabel -B /dev/XXX" out of habit, but have found that tar doesn't honour the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp. The sticky bit is set on these two dirs, but the permissions are not set to 777. This has me wondering what other (dir) perms are not correctly set. Garyhome | help
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