Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration

[David Benfell]

Quoting Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>:

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 1:22 PM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> Because there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'd basically like to  
>> preserve the existing configuration. That includes ports and the  
>> build options. Has anyone come up with a neat procedure for doing  
>> this?
>
> Certainly: take a backup.

To me, this leaves some very important questions unanswered.

First, won't there be some differences in the configuration for UFS  
versus ZFS?

Second, who has a sane backup method for a 500 GB disk that will put  
all the boot stuff in all the right places on a restore? Particularly  
when the bootloader is a different bootloader for UEFI on UFS than  
Grub for ZFS?


-- 
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
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