Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:08:51 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anything specific to keep in mind restoring from rsync ? (Re: Any reason to prefer 11.1 over 10.3 ?) Message-ID: <02739ca6-75ff-a70d-9bc9-030c3b6ab70d@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20170818221842.I98697@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.87.1503057602.63147.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20170818221842.I98697@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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Hi, I've gone another route. Try backuppc. It's a little harder to get rolling with, but it's a viable OSS backup solution. It handles any *nix via rsync. Also, rsync can handle just about all types of files including links. *shrug* Just saying.... P. On 08/18/2017 08:59, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 689, Issue 5, Message: 14 > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:07:35 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/18/17 13:19, Matt Smith wrote: > > > On Aug 18 07:35, Manish Jain wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I am going to have to install FreeBSD again on a box on which 10.3R > > >> works well. Is there any reason I should prefer 11.1R ? > > >> > > >> Thanks for any tips. > > >> Manish Jain > > > > > > The main reason for 11.1 would be the expected end of life date when > > > 10.3 will no longer be supported. As you can see from > > > https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup that is April 30, > > > 2018 whereas 11.1 will be 3 months after the release of 11.2. > > I see that 10.4 is due out in October. Unlikely to be an extended type > release, but I expect it will still use the old release model, so should > be good for a year or so .. but if anyone knows better, please say. > > > > Obviously you can upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4, or from 10.3 to 11.2, and > > > from 11.1 to 11.2 quite easily, but it's easier to start with 11 than it > > > is to start with 10 and do a major version upgrade. > > > > > > Unless there are any strange issues particular to your hardware 10 and > > > 11 should work identically really. > > > > > > > Hi Matt/Others, > > > > I decided that a fresh install would be too much effort considering the > > ease of rsync to back up existing data. > > rsync is great for 'user data', but I'm not sure whether it handles hard > links properly, which you'll want for system directories at least. > > Do you have some reason not to use the canonical dump(8) and restore(8)? > I see you're using the Linux-style 'all on /' approach, but dump(8) only > backs up used blocks and you can compress the output and pipe that back > into restore(8): see the handbook and/or wonkity.com for good recipes. > > > The primary reason I am in the current muddle is that the / partition > > has to be made bigger ( 30G -> 40G ). What I have done is rsynced (with > > some exclusions) / to /mnt/backup > > > > I have actually never restored data with rsync earlier. Precisely what > > should I be doing to return copy out /mnt/backup over / ? > > > > This is what I actually intend : if anyone spots something stupid, > > please chime in now : - ) > > > > 1) Install 10.3 again on the larger root partition > > > > 2) Reboot with the optical media and drop into a fixit shell > > > > 3) Mount the intended slash at /tmp and the partition holding the > > rsynced backup at /mnt > > If you're going with rsync, I strongly suggest not using /tmp; all sorts > of things may use that for, well, temporary files during the operation. > > Better perhaps using /media, /dist or some directory you make: /mnt2 ? > > > 4) rsync from /mnt to /tmp > > Or restore(8) from a dump on say /mnt to (eg) /mnt2 .. but then what? > > > Is the above a decent approach ? > > > > Thanks for any insight/suggestions. > > There are many ways :) I've always done well with dump/restore on UFS - > though I'm only assuming you're using UFS? ZFS needs a different story. > > cheers, Ian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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