migrate system disk <- thank you

[Dánielisz László]

Thank you everybody for your help!




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From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
To: Edward <myself at rdtan.net>
Cc: Dánielisz László <laszlo_danielisz at yahoo.com>; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 8:19:16 AM
Subject: Re: migrate system disk

El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:37:42AM +0800, Edward escribió:

> 
> > 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?
> 
> I've used to do this a lot for server hardware migration, moving from 1
> server to another new server. This blog post recorded what I tried & did :
>http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/01/freebsd-backup-and-restore-freebsd.html
>l

I did an similar aproach, moving a complete system by dump/restore to
another (virtual) hardware to get a 1:1 clone of my laptop. The steps
are documented in detail here:

http://www.unixarea.de/OS/moveFreeBSDintoVM.txt

HIH

    matthias

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