On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: > All, > > Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a > freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? > > So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: > > dd (Slow, not usefull if the hardware isn't identical?) > tar (Doesn't replicate MBR) > rsync (No MBR support) > Norton Ghost (Doesn't support UFS/UFS2?) > G4U (little experience with this) >
Try dump and restore. They seem to be fast and reliable (although not under Linux from all accounts). I usually use "tar" and "disklabel -B /dev/XXX" out of habit, but have found that tar doesn't honour the permissions on /tmp and /var/tmp. The sticky bit is set on these two dirs, but the permissions are not set to 777. This has me wondering what other (dir) perms are not correctly set. Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
