Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:41:25 -0400 (EDT) From: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> To: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241838400.47162-100000@richard2.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241833590.75637-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, James Smallacombe wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > > > James Smallacombe wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Take a dump > > dump -0uanLf - /var | bzip2 | dd of=/some/path/dump-var-level0.bz2 > > dump -0uanLf - / | bzip2 | dd of=/some/path/dump-root-level0.bz2 > > dump -0uanLf - /usr | bzip2 | dd of=/some/path/dump-usr-level0.bz2 > > > > Restore a dump > > To Restore Interactively > > Thanks, this seems to be doing the trick. However, I am getting a ton of > these upon restoring the contents of /usr on the new server: > > warning: cannot create symbolic link > ./src/sys/i386/compile/NEW_NS1.SMP/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/if_ppp/machine->/usr/src/sys/i386/include: > File exists > > Is it just that the symlinks already exist on the new server and it won't > overwrite them the way they overwrite regular files? Ugh...my ssh session to the new (remote) server was killed, presumably when restore overwrote something sshd needed. I was able to telnet back in, restart sshd and get back in, but since I was doing the restore interactively, and not in the background, was the restore interrupted? This is the problem with trying to copy a /usr or / file system to a live system... 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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