Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:39:52 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <grant@thenetnow.com> To: "David Lloyd" <lloy0076@adam.com.au>, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DUMP Message-ID: <000501c27920$7b020700$6401a8c0@grant> References: <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> <011e01c27916$6fcdb9b0$6401a8c0@grant> <3.0.5.32.20021021104915.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20021021112628.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>
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Hi again all, Thanks for all the insight! I take it we could DUMP each filesystem individually, then simply RESTORE it to a new machine, as long as the filesystem exists and is big enough. Can we DUMP all filesystems from one machine in one file then restore it? -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "David Lloyd" <lloy0076@adam.com.au> Cc: <grant@thenetnow.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:26 PM Subject: Re: DUMP > At 01:42 AM 10.22.2002 +0930, David Lloyd wrote: > > > >Jack, > > > >> >Can anyone explain how the DUMP levels work? I understand that 0 is a > >> >full FS dumo, but what does 1, 2, 3, 4 etc etc etc stand for? > > > >Level 0 > > - full dump > > > >Level 1 > > - dumps only the files that have changed since the last level 0 dump > > > >Level 2 > > - dumps only the files that have changed since the last level 1 dump > > > >Level 3 > > - dumps only the files that have changes since the last level 2 dump > > > >(and so forth) > > > > The above is exactly my interpretation too and have been succesful with > restores starting with the "0" and moving through each incremental made > sequentially.... > > I have a lot of confidence in dump/restore as I have used it a lot on > serveral machines. In fact, just moved a large site with several vhosts > from a 40G to a new 80G. Only took 10 mins down time, including the switch > out of the hardware.... > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator > > SageOne Net > http://www.sage-one.net > jackstone@sage-one.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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