migrate system disk

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:06:13 -0700 (PDT), Dánielisz László <laszlo_danielisz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an old HDD which should be replaced soon, actually that HDD stands as my 
> system disk, what is your suggesion, how should I migrate the FreeBSD 8.1 from 
> the old disk to the new one?

Are you running ZFS or UFS on that disk? If UFS, go with the
classical way: use dump + restore. There's a very good example
in the handbook.

	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/backup-basics.html

Also look here:

	http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11680

Use a FreeBSD live system CD or DVD to prepare the target disk
(install boot code, make slices and partitions); you can also
use sysinstall to do that.

Then go with dump + restore. You'll find more hints when searching
the mailing list archive.

If you're on ZFS, use ZFS's tools to export and re-import the
pool, quite simple.



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