Moving Freebsd to a new Server

[Mikel King]

Ian,

	There's an article on geomirror on www.daemonnews.org that I use as  
a guide on working with dump. I do exactly the same sort of thing  
moving my FreeBSD machines between instance and physical on VMWare.  
I've done it in both directions many times using a USB drive as the  
medium.

	I have a move coming up soon, so I shall try to document it for the  
future. Let me know how this works for you.

Cheers,
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On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Ian Lord wrote:

> Hi,
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> We were in a rush to install a freebsd server without proper  
> hardware on
> hand, so we used Microsoft Virtual Server and install Freebsd on it.
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> I would like to move the freebsd installation to a real server and was
> wondering how to do so.
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> I searched around and the solution seems to be to dump the hard drive
> content and restore it on the new server.
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> Does anyone knows a good walkthrough of the entire process, I  
> didn't find
> anything in the handbook beside moving freebsd to a new harddrive  
> which I
> cannot do from the same machine.
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> Basically, I need a way to dump the hd to file, transfer the file over
> whatever media (dvd, network, etc) and restore on the new machine.
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> I'm not even sure if I need to install freebsd on the new machine  
> or not
> since I guess I cannot overwrite the partition on which freebsd is  
> running
> :-)
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> Any help/reference would be appreciated
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> Thanks in advance
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