From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 15:07:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256B116A419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpachnis@freemail.gr) Received: from smtp.freemail.gr (smtp.freemail.gr [81.171.104.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABAD13C447 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:07:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpachnis@freemail.gr) Received: from ariadni.fantasia.ldn (unknown [88.218.94.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.freemail.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1828133816C; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:48:42 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <47580BC8.6050205@freemail.gr> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:48:40 +0200 From: Konstantinos Pachnis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jamesh@lanl.gov References: <539c60b90712041638s78b4e40fn67434f2dce5e27e7@mail.gmail.com> <20071205154148.GB21074@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1196874620.32615.15.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1196874620.32615.15.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry McAllister , Steve Franks , User Questions Subject: Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:07:22 -0000 James Harrison wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: >> >> >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move >>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross >>> filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k >>> blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so >>> obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss something? Is >>> there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]? >>> >> I would use dump/restore. >> >> Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel >> and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere - >> example: >> mkdir /newpart >> mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart >> (presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a) >> Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it >> probably isn't really needed. >> >> Then, run the dump/restore >> >> cd /newpart >> dump 0af - / | restore -rf - >> >> This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr >> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You >> probably want that. >> >> ////jerry >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> Steve >>> > > Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and > there's something that I've never really been clear on. > > The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a > file system across a network? > > James > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hi, If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda. Konstantinos