From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D188537BED5 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat18.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.210]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id BAA01884 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:00:35 +0200 Received: (qmail 86790 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Mar 2000 02:36:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 04:36:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: dump/restore question.. Message-ID: <20000307043642.A86584@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from wellsian@caffeine.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:28:17PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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