Phusion wrote:
I recently built a FreeBSD server, and was wondering how I can make an
image of the hard drive. I am going to build an another FeeBSD server
using identical hardware. How can I make an image of the hard drive of
the original server I built and copy/install it to the new server?
Each server has a 6.4 GB hard drive. Is there a way I can create an
image then install via the network to a new server in the future if
need be? Let me know.
There is the dd command. You can make a copy into a file in the
following way:
dd if=/dev/ad0s1a of=/usr/home/you/backup
(ad0s1a is your partition that You want to backup, and the backup goes
to the /usr/home/you/backup file.)
Transfer the backup to the another machine and type:
dd if=/path/to/backup of=/dev/ad0s1a
It is very simple and straightforward. The if option always refers to
the input and the of refers to the output. See dd(1) for further info.
There is an another utility made for complete partition backups, called
dump. See: dump(8).
Cheers,
Gábor Kövesdán
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