Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:29:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: system cloning Message-ID: <20050610142559.S78603@mail.goinet.com>
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Here's my scenario: I have a system that we are running in production that there was an oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it. There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take care of this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and then bless the boot volume. Is there anything similar I can do on FreeBSD? My boss thinks I should be able to tar up the entire filesystem, create the raid array, and untar the whole thing on the new array. I seem to think this will fail due to block devices that have changed, fstab entries that have changed (though this is correctable), and symlinks that don't nicely come across. Thoughts?home | help
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