From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 6:14:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7744537B423 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 06:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walt@betan.com) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.56.86]) by tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:14:24 -0400 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010509090607.00b2f840@pop3.palace.net> X-Sender: walterbetanc@pop3.palace.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 09:08:58 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Betancourt Subject: RE: dump vs tar? In-Reply-To: <707940000.989405487@sprig.tougas.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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