From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 23:33:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.uunet.ca (mail1.uunet.ca [209.167.141.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DD537BC77 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:33:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail1.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <215942-1556>; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:33:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:33:38 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: wellsian Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Subject: Re: dump/restore question.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That is a wonderful idea, I never thought of doing that, sure saves a fair amount of time, in theory that could be done with minimum downtime. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, wellsian wrote: : Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:28:17 -0500 : From: wellsian : To: Matt Heckaman : Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS : Subject: Re: dump/restore question.. : : You'll be fine. The restore program writes files, not disk blocks like dd. : It behaves in the same manner as ftp or other user-programs, and doesn't : care about the size of the original filesystem. (assuming there's enough : space of course) : : If you have the opportunity, I would attach the replacement drive to the : same system and perform the dump/restore process in one shot. Or better, : use cpio or pax. That would save lots of time over a tape or network dump : and eventual restore, though it sounds like a full backup before starting : might be wise. :) : : Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message