Clone a system and make it smaller?

[johnsie]

Hi,
One of of our systems here has a 250gb disk size. Most of that space is empty. I'm wanting to clone the system and put it onto a computer with a 40gb hard disk. What is the best way to go about doing this? (I need to retain the file structure database settings etc.)

Thanks in advance if you can help.

 

[wblock@]

dump(8)/restore(8). If you want to set up the target disk from scratch, see Disk Setup On FreeBSD first. Then see the section on dump/restore in Backup Options For FreeBSD.

 

[Beastie]

dump(8)/restore(8)

EDIT: wblock was faster, damn!

 

[johnsie]

Thanks. I'll check that out.