Dump Over SSH

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Perform DUMP over SSH tunnel

  • Boot FreeBSD cd, set up partitions correctly
  • boot FreeSBIE
    • login as root, no password 
killall dhclient
ifconfig <interface> inet <ipaddress>/<netmask>
route add default <default router>
umount /mnt
newfs -U /dev/ad0s1a
mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt/
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config, PermitRootLogin yes
passwd, set root password
/etc/rc.d/sshd start
  • login to source machine for dump 
# edit /etc/rc.conf and set up hostname and IP info for new machine
dump -0aLf - / | ssh <ipaddress> "cd /mnt/ && cat | restore -rf -"
# revert /etc/rc.conf
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