From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 8:58:44 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 D761137B40F for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938113F45; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:59:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Doug White Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:56:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: remotely restoring over a live working system Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010516154635.165FA3F3F@bast.unixathome.org> In-reply-to: <20020515145437.Q869-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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: <20010517115959.938113F45@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 On 15 May 2002 at 14:55, Doug White wrote: > 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.... Thanks Doug and Brandon. I'm going the upgrade route. I have tar'd an existing system to a secondary drive, but never the other way around. Sounds like unfun. 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