From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 07:08:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC15E16A4C0 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webserver.get-linux.org (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06BA943F93 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:08:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org) Received: (qmail 28419 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Sep 2003 14:10:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:10:48 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Mark Message-ID: <20030903141048.GC28275@webserver> References: <20030903021608.B64375-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <200309031312.H83DCO2K062567@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309031312.H83DCO2K062567@asarian-host.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:08:40 -0000 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:12:25PM +0000 or thereabouts, Mark wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vincent Poy" > To: "Mike Tancsa" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:22 PM > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > > > > cd /mnt/root > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- > > cd /mnt/var > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- > > cd /mnt/usr > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- > > I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How does > creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that directory get my / > slice back? Then the restored data will just sit in /mnt/root! What good > does it there? > > Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size to the root > partition, and then restore therein, and do the old switcheroo in /etc/fstab > later, to make it the root partion? > > I have successfully restored /var and /usr, on occasion; but that is rather > easy, as they can be unmounted. With the root partition, that is not > possible, of course. Short of having to switch cables on harddisks, is there > a software method that will allow me to restore/switch the root partion? To mirror the root partition to another: # mkdir /mnt/root # mount /dev/ /mnt/root # cd /mnt/root # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf- You will not *need* to umount the root partition. (If you wanted to hot-swap between them, I'm not sure it's possible on FBSD. There is a ``pivot_root'' syscall on linux, though.) To mirror another partition, do mostly the same thing, but replace / with the partition in the dump line (and make sure the correct destination is mounted on your current directory for the restore). Dump/restore is pretty much the accepted way of doing this. -- Josh