system cloning

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Tony Shadwick 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.

Surprisingly, nobody mentioned the FAQ entry yet:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

I usually just do a minimal install on the new disk, then restore onto 
it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA