Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:15:39 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best way to replicate system Message-ID: <CALfReyeda0OyQO5vhyab4iEg78s5utpzu0shjhY0m=kSas0HzQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkqFjw_sM07TD4MLjbTj26mESgECoAzZrkDL31rf10EFRA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaX=2Ckrwpn3ZUSpA=OuxT=ypKA%2BZ0t_trUtc7aUpACH1_w@mail.gmail.com> <CALfReye=7tbqCLn6chq9MRxU9DNzLcYpU7hK=-JRn-r6URe8jQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHHBGkqFjw_sM07TD4MLjbTj26mESgECoAzZrkDL31rf10EFRA@mail.gmail.com>
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make sure you use the --numeric-ids option as well On 24 July 2011 01:58, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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)). > > > -- > -- >
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