Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 08:25:43 -0600 From: Douglas Egan <degan@calcon.net> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@uk.freebsd.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <3BEBE767.B9FD5CD0@calcon.net> References: <000701c167b0$380ff740$1680010a@msapama.apama.com> <20011107173825.GA51086@dan.emsphone.com>
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Since you are going from one machine to another, and one filesystem to
another, can't you just use tar via nfs.
From 'man tar'
To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this:
tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir
Doug
Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> In the last episode (Nov 07), Scott Mitchell said:
> > As the subject says, I'm trying to backup the contents of a large
> > RAID array on a Debian Linux machine and restore it onto an even
> > larger RAID on a FreeBSD box. I figured something like this would do
> > the job:
> >
> > kakapo:/raid# dump -0 -f - /raid/export/cvs | \
> > ssh root@kokako 'cd /raid && restore -t -f - > restore.log'
> >
> > When I run this, I get:
> >
> > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Nov 7 17:07:50 2001
> > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> > DUMP: Dumping /dev/md0 (/raid (dir /export/cvs)) to standard output
> > DUMP: Label: none
> > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> > cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured
>
> Try adding the -t flag to your ssh line.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@allantgroup.com
>
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