From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 15 14:55: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0B237B405 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g4FLt1k07670; Wed, 15 May 2002 14:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:55:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Langille Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remotely restoring over a live working system In-Reply-To: <20010516154635.165FA3F3F@bast.unixathome.org> Message-ID: <20020515145437.Q869-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > 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. Be careful spamming the existing files, if the tar keels over and eats, oh say, libc.... Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message