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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:06:06 -0700
From:      "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>
To:        "'Cody Holland'" <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Restore System
Message-ID:  <012301c5bef0$595d6a90$c901a8c0@workdog>
In-Reply-To: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998646715E@corpsrv.RedMoon.local>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cody Holland
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:48 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Restore System

> 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.
 
You should probably step back and tell us:
1.  What you are trying to accomplish.
2.  What hardware you have (both machines).
3.  What software you are running (uname -a).

You should probably at least reread the Handbook on devices, device
naming, backups (in particular dump and restore).

Best regards,

-gayn





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