Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:19:43 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: robert@webtent.com Cc: Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Imaging to new system Message-ID: <44ejd2u99c.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <1199040464.7325.38.camel@columbus.webtent.org> (Robert Fitzpatrick's message of "Sun\, 30 Dec 2007 13\:47\:44 -0500") References: <1199037275.7325.17.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <839aec700712301010i278cbefcsd2ccd24179468ce4@mail.gmail.com> <1199040464.7325.38.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> writes: > On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: >> On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> wrote: >> > I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID >> > controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image >> > or some other way to save the current install and restore after setting >> > up the RAID or should I just plan to reinstall everything? >> >> Running dump(8) and restore(8) would allow you to back up and restore >> your system. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore >> >> This is typically used with tape, although you can dump to disk as well. >> >> If your data/system is critical, you ought to already have some backup >> strategy you could restore the system from to your new RAID. If not, >> you might put one in place (RAID != backups). >> > > Yes, of course, we have data backup and can restore after reinstalling > everything, but I was looking for a complete system restore option. I'll > look into these docs, thanks. There is no tape system, so I guess the > only hope is if it can be dumped and restored from an NFS drive. From > looking at the docs, it does appear this is possible, as long as the > data in on a fs mounted by fstab? Another possibility is to dump to stdout, and pipe that over ssh.
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