Clone a FBSD system with something in the likes of ghost

[Robert Huff]

On 9/28/2016 10:43 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:

> I have a beautiful running server (dozens of jails and intricate
> configuration) on a single small and aging hard drive. I bought 2 new hard
> drives and want to migrate to a ZFS mirror.
>
> Pardon my ignorance but would there be a way to just copy my system from
> the old drive to the new ZFS array?
>
> I was thinking of something like this: 1) install the two new drives in the
> server and boot with old drive via an USB enclosure. 2) Create a booteable
> ZFS array and somehow copy an identical image of my current system onto the
> array.
>
> Am I dreaming or are there actual ways of doing this? I really don't want
> to re-install and configure everything. Just want to move an identical copy
> of my system to the new hard drives on a ZFS mirror.

	The canonical - and correct - method involves dump piped to restore; 
there may be an example in the Handbook.


		Respectfully,


			Robert Huff