From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 12:26:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from virtual-voodoo.com (virtual-voodoo.com [204.120.165.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6866A37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Received: from inlafrec (80.winstar.net [63.140.3.80] (may be forged)) (authenticated) by virtual-voodoo.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f69JQYl09709; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:26:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Message-ID: <014f01c108ac$cc2e7b80$50038c3f@eservoffice.com> From: "Steven Ames" To: "Ronald G Minnich" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:24:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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