Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:26 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: dump and restore Message-ID: <48810956.5090905@boosten.org>
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Hi all, My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the original to the new partitions by using: dump 0af - /dev/ad2s1[adef] | restore xf - (the partitions adef where done one by one) The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. Is it normal for a backup/restore to take this long? Or could this be due to my failing disk? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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