From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 18:10:34 2007 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 34C6C16A4DC for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC8613C468 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so7472617waf.3 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:10:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lxIazWOq9tQLLX6rfCXaIPQjO9Sj4ULA8Gqf4Cyp/VY=; b=DOGEhySksANDy8/c/gK2s6IwtKXv00ZNLryXdnGDmFhj1MscmxMHBCFhvJwEE3JrMo84haUcdH6XcJ82hqMRlMHrROAqNgN0KI2o99kD/PpEXBYUJ/XYt+XkXwtZqYPKaqgGlE17BodG48yk+iWMdtMqyTO/DtiICGBC7PQHzH0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S0PlebzYPhmdv8xVzqG8NUQdCPuf8q8fyPBHb5kQ57zXmAxY9/Xbj4x+yjCUQmNLIxpUSkIPPgidor0HKQrhCP67szjq+gokhZkMLpsxuaNlA3kFnQzpT6YF/HS5iJP4kDFJxemTOhRsycW9geMgxOb7szp8NlkSxlRmWe1HD+s= Received: by 10.114.92.2 with SMTP id p2mr10987497wab.90.1199038233171; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.47.12 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:10:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <839aec700712301010i278cbefcsd2ccd24179468ce4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:10:33 -0700 From: "Darren Spruell" To: robert@webtent.com In-Reply-To: <1199037275.7325.17.camel@columbus.webtent.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1199037275.7325.17.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Imaging to new system 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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:10:34 -0000 On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID > controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image > or some other way to save the current install and restore after setting > up the RAID or should I just plan to reinstall everything? Running dump(8) and restore(8) would allow you to back up and restore your system. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore This is typically used with tape, although you can dump to disk as well. If your data/system is critical, you ought to already have some backup strategy you could restore the system from to your new RAID. If not, you might put one in place (RAID != backups). -- Darren Spruell phatbuckett@gmail.com