From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 16: 1:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021CC37B434 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C246C43ED8 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 14BD95194A; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:31:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:31:21 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hari Bhaskaran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghost-ing a ufs+vinum disk Message-ID: <20021227000121.GA59463@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021225112256.A21354@spider.netmails.net> <20021226031058.GB34497@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021225220748.A22655@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021225220748.A22655@spider.netmails.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 25 December 2002 at 22:07:48 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:40:58PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a method to dump my 'current' installation >>> (which includes couple of vinum volumes + some other normal >>> UFS partitions) to another machine where I have access to >> >> What's wrong with tar? > > I was trying to find a way to 'snapshot' my installation > (including partitions, vinum configuration etc), so that > I can return to the same state later if I mess something > up (without re-running the installer again) The Vinum configuration is stored on the drives themselves. If you want a copy, use the vinum dumpconfig command. Apart from that, what's wrong with tar? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message