Date: 15 Apr 2023 16:47:21 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Subject: Re: frequent disk error, need guidance Message-ID: <20230415204721.DD803BF2E2EA@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <da04f7b2-2d8f-f7fb-5a00-e378a33e7a84@dreamchaser.org>
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It appears that Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> said: >of fbsd in such cases), wanted to see if the following is a good way >to copy the old disk to the new one. > >mount /dev/ada1p2 /mnt/newsys >cd /mnt/newsys >dump -0 -f - /dev/ada0p2 | restore -r -Dv -f - > >However... this is a running system, which seems unlikely to produce >a consistent result. I'd shut down to single user, make a /.snap directory, and do dump -L to tell it to make a snapshot before dumping. That should work OK.
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