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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 08:25:43 -0600
From: Douglas Egan <degan@calcon.net>
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To: Scott Mitchell <scott@uk.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine
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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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