I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command:
tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz /
I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command:
tar -xzpf /path to backup file
The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE
harddrive, and the new system is SCSI. I'm getting the following
errors:
dev/ad0: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1a: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1b: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1c: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1d: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
dev/ad0s1e: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
Is there an easy way around this? Any help would greatly be
appreciated.
Look into the --exclude option for tar...
--exclude pattern Exclude files matching the pattern (don't
extract them, don't add them, don't list them).
just skip everything beneath /dev/
-philip
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