create archive of system

[Eric]

Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask this. What is the 
> best way to create an
> archive of a FreeBSD system so yoy can take it to another computer and 
> unarchive and
> have a runnable system, assuming the other systems disk had already been 
> formatted
> with the appropriate filesystems. In other words I want to move all the 
> files and have them
> keep all their attributes, permissions, ownership, chflags etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 

dump and restore will probably be the most popular opinion for this. 
This is my setup for this:

http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:dumprestore