Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:18:03PM +0200, insrc typed: Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: - as the UFS write support is still experimental in the Linux kernel, it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ I heard about frenzy ( http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ ) but the homepage says that the project is no longer maintained ! - i'm wondering how to restore the bootloader after copying the files on the second box. On linux, i can use the grub-install script to do the job but i'm a bit lost on FreeBSD :-) Assuming you install on the first slice of the first disk (ad0s1), to install the bootloader and bootstrap code: fdisk -B ad0 bsdlabel -B ad0s1 Ruben ___ 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
Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync
Hi, I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying the / filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: - as the UFS write support is still experimental in the Linux kernel, it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ I heard about frenzy ( http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ ) but the homepage says that the project is no longer maintained ! - i'm wondering how to restore the bootloader after copying the files on the second box. On linux, i can use the grub-install script to do the job but i'm a bit lost on FreeBSD :-) Hello. The Frenzy distro is still quite usable albeit it was abandoned. ;) Also you can find official FreeBSD liveCD iso here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i.386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso (change arch type according to you platform). -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ 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
Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync
Hi, Thanks guys, everything worked perfectly ! - For the liveCD, i booted the second box with FreeNAS ( http://www.freenas.org/index.php?lang=fr ) , which include rsync and ssh :-) - Created the partition layout following the official doc http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html. @Ruben: Thanks for your help btw for restoring the bootloader :-) - Then just rsynced the / filesystem excluding the /dev directory. - Ajusted /etc/fstab - Voilà ! Seems easier than a migration of GNU/Linux after all :) Thanks again for your help ! Cheers, ___ 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
Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync
insrc informatique@gmail.com wrote: it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ www.freesbie.org The site is not responding for me ATM, but the text is cached here: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:WjK0Anp5tb4J:www.freesbie.org/+freesbie+freebsdhl=engl=usstrip=1 ___ 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
Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync
Hi, Am Sonntag, 05. Jul 2009, 18:18:03 +0200 schrieb insrc: - as the UFS write support is still experimental in the Linux kernel, it seems that i've to use a BSD liveCD but i can't find one :-/ I heard about frenzy ( http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ ) but the homepage says that the project is no longer maintained ! There is a livefs with the original ISO images: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ I further found DesktopBSD but I didn't try that. I strongly recommend that you build yourself an USB stick. Here's what you need to do: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 I went forth, chrooted into the stick and installed Vim, some diagnose/repair tools and an XFCE. I even managed to install Grub and let the user switch the boot process back to the hard disk. Further, I made a second partition named transfer formatted with FAT so that I can write some data from a Windows to it. I look enviously at the Grml project and I find it a great pity that there is no BSD equivalent. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de ___ 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
