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Restore a FreeBSD installation through ZFS send/recieve

November 11, 2011 16:49 / Leave a Comment / Magnus Strahlert

Boot into RescueCD onto receiving machine. Then create GPT partitioning scheme (If a new machine and assuming ad0 is the disk) gpart create -s gpt ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64K ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G -l swap0 ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l disk0 ad0 gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot … Read More →

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