Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To

[Derek Ragona]

At 09:05 AM 12/19/2007, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
>Hi all,
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>I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a
>different Hardware.
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>I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to
>install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have
>up and running.
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>I created a Swap Partition, a “/” partition where the minimum system is
>running, and a third partition “/backup” in which I will restore the backup
>through the network.
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>Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through
>“/backup”.
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>Do you guys think this is doable?
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>I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery
>because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work?
>
>What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ?
>
>Thanks for reading and
>
>Best regards
>
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>
>Nuno

It depends on your server's partitioning.  The simplest would be to create 
the same file systems like you had on the old server and restore each 
filesystem.

         -Derek

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