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Old 4th November 2009
carpman carpman is offline
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Ok getting ready for this task this weekend.

Have got new drive and put them in identical server, created raid containers and used freebsd 7.2 livefs to created identicle slice and partition layout except sizes differ.

have also done a base install to get boot loader onto disks and install boots fine.

The plan is to rsync current install to an external usb drive here at home over the net, then go to data center disconnect from web and and do rsync again to external drive, doing it twice so as to save downtime as second one should not take that long.

Then put new drives in server boot from livefs cd and rsync from external drive to new raid drives.

Question, apart from getting rsync options correct is there anything else i need to do?

Also what file system should i have the external drive in, am going to do initail rsync with it connected to my linux workstation so was going to use ext3, should set linux to support ufs and create a ufs file system?

many thanks
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