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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net ========================================================================= _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
