From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 21:15:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83801106564A for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE348FC0A for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so2339122gyf.13 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:15:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=spCdzkCRxti6WSRNhgrUOW1BT/LScodaHrkWw//kVWM=; b=eCp+eD0034RUhdsVpEhPnZTb6s3rogO2uQeVRqtKuo+vZbbv+8QZKITaLBGcMZZ//S i8AkKg7Y7nZfgL84xaDiSmXvYIsHqmsMQWL6yZDYzC9VllZpHdluox9ymIXgWr6aSUql S5kht8MMFfZVwq2UJnRuUYmPyEB13i3cGMs6w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.125.131 with SMTP id z3mr4981000yhh.57.1311542139466; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.103.15 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:15:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:15:39 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: "illoai@gmail.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Aryeh Friedman , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: best way to replicate system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:15:40 -0000 make sure you use the --numeric-ids option as well On 24 July 2011 01:58, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad wrote: > > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > >> I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be > >> duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... > >> none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be > >> a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is > >> "make release" or make a diskimage and dd it > > > > A quick and dirty way is to get a working freebsd on a usb stick or > cdrom, > > run a script that slices up the disks, newfs, and mounts them then rsyncs > > all the files across from the original server. Ive used this method many > > times for doing backup restores. > > Yes, rsync with --rsh="ssh -C" (unless you're just > transferring already compressed data (*.jpg, *.avi, > *.tar.gz, etc)). > > > -- > -- >