On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: > James Harrison wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > >> > >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move > >>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross > >>> filesystems") was intended for. It failed, however, as df shows 20k > >>> ... > >> I would use dump/restore. > >> ... > >> Then, run the dump/restore > >> > >> cd /newpart > >> dump 0af - / | restore -rf - > >> > >> This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr > >> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You > >> probably want that. > >> > >> ////jerry > >> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Steve > >>> > > > > Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and > > there's something that I've never really been clear on. > > > > The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a > > file system across a network? > > > > James > > > Hi, > If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a > network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.
He said he just wants to make a copy of the file system on to another disk. Getting a whole new system set up is overkill for that. Anyway, we were never happy with Amanda. Haven't used Bacula. ////jerry > > Konstantinos > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"