From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 07:32:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10779 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:32:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from border.com (ns.border.com [199.71.190.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA10750 Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by janus.border.com id <20481>; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:35:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:32:02 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall To: Gary Crutcher Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk replication In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960110144113.006952bc@nightflight.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <96Jan10.103510est.20481@janus.border.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Gary Crutcher wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a 2nd SCSI drive (2.1 GB) which is the same as my 1st. My 1st drive > has FBSD 2.05 on it, and I boot from it. How can I replicate the 1st drive > onto the 2nd drive so I can disable the 1st drive and boot from the 2nd > drive? I want to upgrade to 2.1 and if something goes wrong I need to bring > my server back up quickly. I can only have the system down for about an > hour or so. > > I would like to get info on how to do this ASAP as I want to do the upgrade > this weekend. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Gary > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary Crutcher E-mail: gcrutchr@nightflight.com > Webmaster URL: http://www.nightflight.com > Voice: 619-631-0666 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > 'dd' is the first thing to come to mind.... However, after a short pause to realy think about it, try doing a backup piped to a restore... You can use dump(8) and restore(8).... good luck... Jerry@border.com Jerry@kcis.com