From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 21:21:32 2008 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 E4B041065670 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FD48FC15 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=38458 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJxOM-0003sD-TV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:30 +0200 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:4889 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJxOM-000260-BG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:30 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582593989F for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48810956.5090905@boosten.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:26 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080713-0, 07/13/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Subject: dump and restore 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: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:33 -0000 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