Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:45:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...] Message-ID: <20071029014508.GA82718@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071028233422.GC2196@woodstock.nethamilton.net> References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> <20071028230203.GA13943@thought.org> <20071028233422.GC2196@woodstock.nethamilton.net>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote:
> Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]:
>
> } > At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to
> } > elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy
> } > everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command.
> } >
> } The nutshelll of this posting could be: What's the best tool
> } to copy a /FILESYSTEM to /storage/FILESYSTEM?
>
> The best tool is the one you use successfully. If you're really talking about
> a whole filesystem, dump and restore may contain the least surprises in
> unusual situations:
>
> $ newfs /dev/whatever
> $ mount /dev/whatever /mnt
> $ cd /dev/whatever
> $ dump 0af - /old_filesystem | restore -rf -
>
> Then delete /mnt/restoresymtable when it's all done.
>
> Of course you can use tar, cpio, cpdup if you have it, or even cp. At
> different points in time historically some of those have had problems with
> some situations like sparse files, "extra" hard links, symlinks, etc.
>
Seems like I'm running into inode problems.... I finally
tar'd /var to a /temp fs, then forgot to do the newfs. So now
I've got a fs panic.
Hope it isn't a bad drive.....
thanks.
gary
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>
> Jon Hamilton
> hamilton@pobox.com
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