Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:01:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dump and restore Message-ID: <20080719000050.G1423@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <48810956.5090905@boosten.org> References: <48810956.5090905@boosten.org>
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> 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? if you don't use softdeps on destination disk - it will. or if it had so slow reads because of hardware problem. rather be happy it succeeded :) if your disk is failing
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