Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:42 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive Copy Message-ID: <20001130110442.A16709@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10011300819540.75832-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>; from jwyatt@rwsystems.net on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:36:46AM -0600 References: <20001130004855.M30886@nathan.ruhr.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10011300819540.75832-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:36:46AM -0600, James Wyatt thus spoke:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:
> > James Wyatt wrote some time ago:
> > > and user tar/cpio to transfer files.
> > These programs are the wrong tools to do it. They can be used to
> > handle regular files and {hard,soft} links but they will fail
> > for device nodes, sparse files and all the other nice features.
> > Use dump, dump or dump:
> > cd /
> > mount /new-root-partition /mnt
> > dump 0af - | (cd /mnt ; restore -rf -)
> > umount /mnt
> Thanks, due to ancient experiences with dump/restore on an old BSD
> VAX and a Tandy RS/6000, I've disliked dump by default, ..
Been there on the 6000. Can't say that I blame you one bit.
> Does anyone have bootable tape support on x86? The MakeSysB tape
> generation on AIX boxes rocks. There also used to be a SCO-usable
> product (CTar?) that made a tape and a boot floppy. Both worked well.
Ctar was the original - Mike Schwartz as I recall - the company was
Unitrends. It's still around but it's decendants BackupEdge from
Microlite and Lone-Tar from Cactus are quite popular.
Edge supports boot from tape on the new HPs. They don't support
the FreeBSD market. Lone-Tar supports FreeBSD. How well I'm not
sure as I haven't installed my copy - I need to get my tape drive
fixed first. I have seen no vendor which supports bootable
disaster recovery software under FreeBSD, though LoneTar and BRU
have bootable recovery disks for Linux.
I've not used a current BRU - just on an old SGI so I can't tell
you about that. I've used both BE and LT on client machines
[primarily SCO] and they handle a complete backup, including all
the /dev files, and empty directores, etc., properly.
All commercial stuff. They do have downloads.
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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