From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 21:08:27 2005 Return-Path: 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 16C0516A424 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:08:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from JANDRESE@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (smtp-bedford-x.mitre.org [192.160.51.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329EB43D46 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:08:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from JANDRESE@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id j6LL8Nl08955 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:08:23 -0400 Received: from smtp-bedford.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C22DBF00 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:08:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imcfe2.MITRE.ORG (imcfe2.mitre.org [129.83.29.4]) by smtp-bedford.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j6LL8Ms08912; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:08:22 -0400 Received: from IMCSRV2.MITRE.ORG ([129.83.20.164]) by imcfe2.MITRE.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:08:22 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:08:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Machine Replication Thread-Index: AcWOKglnO0VTEYYaQMuHULpmFUt/hgADd34g From: "Andresen,Jason R." To: "Eli K. Breen" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2005 21:08:22.0418 (UTC) FILETIME=[53BDAF20:01C58E38] 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:08:27 -0000 >From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org=20 >[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eli K. Breen >Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:21 PM >To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Subject: Machine Replication > >All, > >Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a=20 >freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? > >So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the=20 >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) If you need stuff replicated fast and you don't mind a bit of setup, there is emulab http://www.emulab.net/. I can push out new images to machines in less than 10 minutes including the time it takes to reboot twice (once into the imager and once back to the OS). =20 You may need to use UFS1 for your filesystems though, I don't know if the imager can handle UFS2 yet. We use UFS1 here just to be safe. =20