Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:27:23 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> Cc: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <20061024192723.GB84382@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <453E57F8.5030101@mikestammer.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241411130.55341-100000@richard2.pil.net> <453E57F8.5030101@mikestammer.com>
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:14:16PM -0500, Eric wrote: > James Smallacombe wrote: > >On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > > > >>James Smallacombe wrote: > >>>A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and > >>>configuring > >>>the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches > >>>and > >>>addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out > >>>all > >>>the upgrade issues that entailed. > >>> > >>>Since then, due to apparent hardware problems with that server, I just > >>>put > >>>together a new server using new hardware. > >>> > >>>The old hardware was dual P-III, Adaptec SCSI RAID 1 > >>> > >>>The new hardware is single Xeon, LSI SAS RAID 1 > >>> > >>>Both running 6.2-Prerelease. > >>> > >>>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? > >>> > >>>Please copy me directly, since I am no subscribed > >>why not just a dump/restore of the file systems in question? > > > >Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using > >tar: > > > >su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz > ><snip thousands of lines> > >x /usr/lib/libtacplus.so.2 > >x /usr/lib/libtacplus.so > >x /usr/lib/libutil.a > >x /usr/lib/libutil.so > >x /usr/lib/libypclnt.a > >x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so.2 > >x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so > >x /usr/lib/libalias.a > >x /usr/lib/libalias.so > >x /usr/lib/libarchive.a > >x /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2Bus error: 10 (core dumped) > > > >I take it the core dump occured because I was trying to overwrite a lib > >that > >was in use by tar, right? Is there a good way around this? > > > >TIA, > > > >James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware > >james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE > >PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net > >========================================================================= > > > > dump and restore do not have anything to do with tar. check out the > handbook. it has some good info. True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. As for the core dump, I don't know. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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