Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:24:37 -0500 From: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: "Ronald G Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <mjacob@feral.com> Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk Message-ID: <014f01c108ac$cc2e7b80$50038c3f@eservoffice.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107082006140.25228-100000@white.acl.lanl.gov>
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> > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a > > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead. Hrm... what about 'rsync'? Does it suffer from the same problems as 'tar'? I use rsync a lot because its incremental. This is off topic from migrating to a new disk, but I am curious... -Steve > yes, tar is a horrible way to do this. > > newfs /dev/whatever > mount /dev/whatever /new > cd /new > dump 0f - /dev/your-root-device | restore rf - > > At least that's how I do it ... > > ron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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