Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:01:55 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <20061025120155.1fdd48fc@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241131030.94868-100000@richard2.pil.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241131030.94868-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> wrote:
> Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old
> server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any
> simlinks to other file systems?
why not use packages? from the already installed ones .
I was agreeing with the dump/restore option, but doing it on top of a running
system is possibly not the best idea...specially if you are going to be
overwriting /etc and /usr/local/etc/...
If you *didnt* have a running system on your new box, then definitely,
dump/restore is great. Alternatively, you can get clever with dumping/restoring
to alternative partitions and then adapt /etc/fstab in the new box to use the
new files...
the issue with libarchive + tar is, maybe, that is heavily used by tar itself?
good luck
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