create archive of system
Ronald Klop
ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Wed Apr 11 12:11:06 UTC 2007
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:56:15 +0200, Stephen Clark
<Stephen.Clark at seclark.us> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask this. What is the
> best way to create an
> archive of a FreeBSD system so yoy can take it to another computer and
> unarchive and
> have a runnable system, assuming the other systems disk had already been
> formatted
> with the appropriate filesystems. In other words I want to move all the
> files and have them
> keep all their attributes, permissions, ownership, chflags etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
The list freebsd-questions is a better place for this question I think.
But you can use dump/restore or tar. There are a lot of examples out there
on the internet.
Ronald.
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Ronald Klop
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