Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:19:16 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Edward <myself@rdtan.net> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E1nielisz_L=E1szl=F3?= <laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: migrate system disk Message-ID: <20100923061916.GA1945@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4C9AAF66.9050308@rdtan.net> References: <447149.36059.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4C9AAF66.9050308@rdtan.net>
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El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:37:42AM +0800, Edward escribió: > > > I have an old HDD which should be replaced soon, actually that HDD stands as my > > system disk, what is your suggesion, how should I migrate the FreeBSD 8.1 from > > the old disk to the new one? > > I've used to do this a lot for server hardware migration, moving from 1 > server to another new server. This blog post recorded what I tried & did : > http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/01/freebsd-backup-and-restore-freebsd.html I did an similar aproach, moving a complete system by dump/restore to another (virtual) hardware to get a 1:1 clone of my laptop. The steps are documented in detail here: http://www.unixarea.de/OS/moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!
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