From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 30 8: 4:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-177.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DB037B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA16876 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bill) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:04:42 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive Copy Message-ID: <20001130110442.A16709@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@bilver.wjv.com References: <20001130004855.M30886@nathan.ruhr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jwyatt@rwsystems.net on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:36:46AM -0600 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message