Looking for a BSD snapshot tool for live boot reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anotherlittlewave · 2017-12-25 16:24 What I am looking to do is either build or find a script like remastersys/crunshmaster for linux. What those scripts do are to take a snapshot of the currently running system and create a bootable ISO file. I use it with a boot to ram option which is helpful for when I break something. The problem is, I've been wanting to shift over to BSD from linux for *years* now, and I just cannot seem to get something like this working. I've dissected the crunchmaster scripts and attempted to translate them over to BSD. No luck. Remastersys is dead(ish), and I am unable to decently translate them over either. Maybe there is something I am missing, but all the tools out there seem to create a bootable usb, which ends up just mounting the usb drive as another persistent storage disk. The process I am looking to achieve is to have a conventional BSD system running on a computer. That will be the "master" system. On the master, run a script to snapshot everything about it to an image file. The image will be written to a harddrive/usb with dd, then booted. The image file is loaded into ram and the harddrive/usb is no longer needed. Any changes to the running live system is lost during a reboot. Any necessary updates or changes are generated from a new image off the master bsd system. I don't see anything in the r/BSD posting guidelines about soliciting work, but I'm willing to pay one of you people to write this script off of a spec sheet I provide, comment the hell out of the script, and show it working correctly. If that is out of line for the posting guidelines, I'll pull it. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dlangille · 2017-12-25 19:45 Why not use http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ instead? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anotherlittlewave · 2017-12-25 20:50 This is something I had not seen before. I've give it a look. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dlangille · 2017-12-25 22:00 I have used it for many things, including: * burning firmware into SAS cards * ZFS maintenance (renaming / moving datasets) * fixing systems after doing silly stuff Note: you can ssh as root ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anotherlittlewave · 2017-12-26 02:42 It seems the terminology I need to use is "insert ramdisk image into freebsd kernel". That leads to more projects that seem to achieve the same task. Thanks for the lead. I'll be taking apart the scripts and seeing what makes them tick. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sensucht94 · 2017-12-30 12:20 Give a look at [**NomadBSD**](https://github.com/mrclksr/NomadBSD/blob /master/README.md) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anotherlittlewave · 2017-12-30 13:38 Very cool. Thanks!