From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 08:03:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8B516A4CE for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 08:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767FA43D31 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 08:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4NF2lCj038729; Sun, 23 May 2004 09:02:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i4NF2hjt038726; Sun, 23 May 2004 09:02:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 09:02:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Mark In-Reply-To: <200405231300.I4ND0KQT063952@asarian-host.net> Message-ID: <20040523085859.X38704@wonkity.com> References: <009f01c440c1$c9091d20$6601a8c0@grant> <200405231300.I4ND0KQT063952@asarian-host.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Grant Peel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New machines - Dump and Restore -deploy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:03:34 -0000 On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mark wrote: > You cannot restore the root-partition on the root-partition that you booted > from, because it is in use at the time. Actually, you can. There are a couple of errors on files that can't be written, but it works. Although I do at least rebuild the kernel after rebooting, and rebuilding the world isn't a bad idea. If the original and newly-restored system are of different versions, it might break, though. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA