From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 15 12:43:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [216.187.105.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297F737B404 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165FA3F3F for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:46:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:43:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: remotely restoring over a live working system Reply-To: dan@langille.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-Id: <20010516154635.165FA3F3F@bast.unixathome.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar the old disk over to the new disk and get everything back running that way. It's that or upgrade to stable, install about 30 or so packages, and manually configure everything. How feasible is copying from ad2 to ad0 given that I'm booting and running off ad0? My thoughts are that it's faster but higher risk. cheers -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message