Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:57:53 -0400 (EDT) From: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241555010.1851-100000@richard2.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <20061024192723.GB84382@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is
> a better way than using tar.
I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this?
su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Oct 24 15:52:01 2006
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1d (/usr) to ns1.usr.dump
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 3077070 tape blocks on 79.03 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump
DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes
DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 149561
DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump
DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #3
DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")
What volume? The one I'm dumping? If so, why does it keep asking whether
it's mounted? What are all these different volume numbers? I just want to
dump /usr to one file, compressing and preserving permissions and symlinks as
much as possible, so I can restore it to a new server.
James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware
james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE
PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net
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