Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restore System Message-ID: <20050921141722.V89976@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646715E@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646715E@corpsrv.RedMoon.local>
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> I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command:
> tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz /
>
> I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command:
> tar -xzpf /path to backup file
>
> The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE
> harddrive, and the new system is SCSI. I'm getting the following
> errors:
> dev/ad0: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1a: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1b: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1c: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1d: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1e: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
>
> Is there an easy way around this? Any help would greatly be
> appreciated.
Look into the --exclude option for tar...
--exclude pattern Exclude files matching the pattern (don't
extract them, don't add them, don't list them).
just skip everything beneath /dev/
-philip
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