On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad <kra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be >> duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... >> none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be >> a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is >> "make release" or make a diskimage and dd it > > A quick and dirty way is to get a working freebsd on a usb stick or cdrom, > run a script that slices up the disks, newfs, and mounts them then rsyncs > all the files across from the original server. Ive used this method many > times for doing backup restores.
Yes, rsync with --rsh="ssh -C" (unless you're just transferring already compressed data (*.jpg, *.avi, *.tar.gz, etc)). -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"