Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 04:36:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Subject: Re: dump/restore question.. Message-ID: <20000307043642.A86584@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003052316090.11594-100000@boris.netgate.net>; from wellsian@caffeine.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:28:17PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003060204220.10546-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003052316090.11594-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:28:17PM -0800, wellsian wrote: > > You'll be fine. The restore program writes files, not disk blocks > like dd. It behaves in the same manner as ftp or other user-programs, > and doesn't care about the size of the original filesystem. (assuming > there's enough space of course) Assuming that the machine is not accessed by lots and lots of people at the time, pax seems to be such a charm ;) One of my friends handed me a spare disk the other day and I copied over a fresh 4.0 installation with pax, and a couple of very short downtime periods. > For Matt Heckaman: If you're interested Matt, I can put on the web somewhere the script I used for copying the files with pax, with the second disk mounted under /mnt, after it had been fdisk'ed, labelled, and newfs'ed. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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