I have a working FreeBSD system that I love and...(Wow saying out loud I think I may need to seek a professional). Any way I would hate to loose it and was wondering if there is a way to make a duplicate system without weeks of configuration. Kind of like RAID Mirroring for a computer?
I understand there is g4u (That would get the new system up and running quickly) but I think the hardware would be different enough that my custom kernel may not like it (Unless I could do that and boot into single user mode and compile a new kernel… Is that feasible?) I am probably going to load FreeBSD from scratch. Not hard at all. I can be done in a matter of 20 mins (When I told my boss that his jaw dropped. Try to load windows from scratch in 20 mins). I found a good doc on hardening a FreeBSD system on BSDGuides: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/security/harden.php That should only take me an hour. So how do I copy everything else? All my programs and such and keep them up to date. Let’s say once a week Server-A copies its self to ServerB so if one died I could throw the other on the net change it's IP and computer name and be done with it. Can I just copy /usr to the other system and be done with it? Is it a bad idea to setup a cron job to do that once a week or more? Should I tar it first then copy it and untar it? Thank you, Joshua Lewis _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
