From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jul 21 20:15:42 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A4C516A42A
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:15:42 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from bsd@unixforge.net)
Received: from mail.sectornotfound.com (mail.sectornotfound.com
	[209.139.233.100])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85FF43D98
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:15:05 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from bsd@unixforge.net)
Received: from hannibal.int.sectornotfound.com
	(hannibal.int.sectornotfound.com [192.168.98.3])
	by murdock.sectornotfound.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id
	j6LKF3Zj022661; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from bsd@unixforge.net)
Received: from [192.168.3.212] (gw.activestate.com [209.17.183.249])
	(authenticated bits=0)
	by hannibal.int.sectornotfound.com (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id
	j6LKF3hH070420; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from bsd@unixforge.net)
Message-ID: <42E0029A.4090204@unixforge.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:16:26 -0700
From: "Eli K. Breen" <bsd@unixforge.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com>
References: <42DFF582.1050406@unixforge.net>
	<20050721150151.R7966@coco.macktronics.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050721150151.R7966@coco.macktronics.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Machine Replication
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:15:42 -0000

Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new 
machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be 
able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine.

Thanks for all the responses so far.

-E-

Dan Mack wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix),
> or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD?
> 
> If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup 
> up custom network images that I could blast to any system just by 
> pxebooting it.  I'm not sure if it is possible with FreeBSD though, anyone?
> 
> Dan