From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 8 0:43: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A3137B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f687gxS61390; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:42:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Warner Losh Cc: Jeff Mohler , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I mean, Warner- you're right, but, well, I've been using tar to copy systems for the last 5 years for *BSD, and, well, it really works best for me. On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Only if you want to be here until next tuesday. Solaris ufsdump runs 8 times > as fast. > > You're right - tar doesn't handle files with holes. Not too many of those > around. > > /dev you can and should always remake. Typically it's only sa0 out of the > generic set that tar skips. > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message Matthew Jacob writes: > > : tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/ && tar xpf -) > > > > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a > > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead. > > > > Warner > > > > > 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