FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7 i386 system drive imaging and migration
David Christensen
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Mon Jan 30 06:08:00 UTC 2017
On 01/29/17 21:18, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote:
>
>> On 01/29/17 05:27, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the proper way to clone a FreeBSD system image from one drive
>>>> to another?
>>>
>>> On encrypted ZFS? I'm not sure there is a brute-force way that is
>>> trustworthy. Using higher-level commands to recreate the partitions,
>>> GELI encryption, and then zfs send | recv are certain safer and won't
>>> duplicate supposedly unique IDs.
>>
>> STFW
>>
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html
>>
>>
>> toor at freebsd:/root # gpart show
>> => 63 31277169 ada0 MBR (15G)
>> 63 1 - free - (512B)
>> 64 31277160 1 freebsd [active] (15G)
>> 31277224 8 - free - (4.0K)
>>
>> => 0 31277160 ada0s1 BSD (15G)
>> 0 4194304 1 freebsd-zfs (2.0G)
>> 4194304 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
>> 8388608 22888544 4 freebsd-zfs (11G)
>> 31277152 8 - free - (4.0K)
>>
>>
>> It appears that my FreeBSD image lives within what Microsoft and Linux
>> would call a single MBR primary partition (FreeBSD "slice"?), and that
>> FreeBSD further subdivides that into boot, swap, and root sections
>> (FreeBSD "partitions"?).
>
> Yes. I think the 11.0 installer made the mistaken assumption that
> machines that boot from BIOS must (or should) use MBR/disklabel.
I manually selected MBR partitioning scheme in the installer, as I have
machines going back to Pentium 4's and I want something that will work
on all of them.
>> STFW RTFM there is information scattered in many places. Is there a
>> concise document that explains what is relevant for creating, cloning,
>> migrating, etc., FreeBSD 11 r7 system drives -- what the on-disk data
>> structures are, how to back up them and their contents, how to
>> recreate the structures on a blank drive, how to restore contents,
>> how to deal with size, identifier, serial number, crypto key, etc.,
>> changes, etc.?
>
> Not that I know of. What you are talking about is a combination of
> numerous different systems. I talk about partitioning here:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
>
> But if you are using encryption, that means GELI (geli(8)).
Okay.
>>>> What is the proper way to move a HDD or SSD with a FreeBSD system
>>>> image from one computer to another computer?
>>>
>>> Provided the binaries have not been optimized for one CPU, just move the
>>> drive. Disk drive names can change, which is not a problem when labels
>>> are used.
>>
>> It looks like I got lucky on device names. Where are slice/
>> partition/ filesystem labels documented, notably the strategies and
>> procedures for using them?
>
> See glabel(8).
Okay.
>>> Ethernet interface names can change. If there is only one
>>> interface, use ifconfig_DEFAULT in /etc/rc.conf.
>>
>> Regarding the network interface, my /etc/rc.conf contains shell
>> variable assignments. What am I to assign to 'ifconfig_DEFAULT'?
>
> Usually, SYNCDHCP:
>
> ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHP"
>
> It functions the same as ifconfig_em0 or _re0 or whatever, but for all
> interfaces with no other settings.
Okay -- this worked:
ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP"
>> RTFM 'ifconfig_DEFAULT' I draw blank:
>>
>> toor at freebsd:/root # grep ifconfig_DEFAULT /etc/rc.conf
>> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>> toor at freebsd:/root # man rc.conf | grep ifconfig_DEFAULT
>
> setenv PAGER less
> man rc.conf
> Type
> /ifconfig_DEFAULT
> and press Enter.
Yes, I tried that. Interactive use:
Pattern not found (press RETURN)
grep'ing the man page:
dpchrist at freebsd:/usr/home/dpchrist $ man rc.conf | grep ifconfig_DEFAULT
<nothing>
>> The Xfce application issues appeared both when:
>>
>> 1. The FreeBSD system drive image was copied to another drive and
>> then booted in the source machine.
>>
>> 2. The FreeBSD system drive was booted in another machine.
>>
>>
>> What is causing the Xfce issues?
>
> No idea. I have moved hard drives from one machine to another, and in
> fact wrote an installer that sets up FreeBSD to be used on a generic
> machine with Xfce.
Does it work on FreeBSD 11.0 i386?
David
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