Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 09:08:58 -0400 From: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: dump vs tar? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010509090607.00b2f840@pop3.palace.net> In-Reply-To: <707940000.989405487@sprig.tougas.net> References: <XFMail.010509123848.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Damien, Could you give me a procedure to use dump to clone a complete hard drive to a larger drive that would boot and work identical to the original ? tia At 06:51 AM 5/9/01 -0400, you wrote: >--On Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:38:48 +0200 Micke Josefsson ><mj@isy.liu.se> wrote: > >>As pointed out in another response dump works on entire filesystems. The >>advantage is that a dump can be restored unto a completely new disk. I use >>dump (and restore) for cloning entire machines. A dumped /-partition is >>bootable when restored on another disk. If that is not your goal (it >>isn't, right?) you should stick to tar. > >It is also worth noting that tar has a path limitation of 250 characters. >This can be a bit of a pain if you have very deeply nested directores. >There are ways around this, but it can sometimes be a bit of a pain. > >--- >Damien Tougas >Systems Administrator >Carroll-Net, Inc. >http://www.carroll.com Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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