Philip Hallstrom wrote:
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.
If you want two more identical drives then use dump, not tar, but
you'd have to have them sliced/partitioned up the same beforehand and
it wouldn't do bootblocks.
You would? Why? restore doesn't care where you're restoring to...
you'd just need to make sure you were in / before restoring and then
tweak /etc/fstab to suit...
I understood the question to be how to create two identical *disks* not
two identical directory trees. So unless the disks were partitioned and
sliced the same before you used dump/restore then you wouldn't end up
with identical disks. If all you want is two identical directory trees,
then slicing and partitioning are irrelevant.
--Alex
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
