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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:34:56 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?
Message-ID:  <20050324193456.GB31083@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <200503241911.j2OJBKJ07841@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <1473492382.20050324195730@wanadoo.fr> <200503241911.j2OJBKJ07841@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:11:19PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> I would recommend using dump(8) to copy each of the filesystems to a file.   
> Then create new slices & partitions, newfs them and restore(8) the contents 
> back. It is safer and just as efficient.

Notice one could use the r-version of dump, rdump, to write the dump
file on a networked machine. Its simpler than setting up NFS. Modern
versions apparently support ssh, which eliminates most of the security
fears of traditional r-commands.

If rdump works for you then rrestore should as well.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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