Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread David King
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? I highl

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:37:29 -0400 (EDT) James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old > server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any > simlinks to other file systems? why not use packages? fro

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:57:53PM -0400, 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

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
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 fami

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
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 > >

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
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? su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr DUMP: Da

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
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? su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:14:16PM -0500, Eric wrote: > James Smallacombe wrote: > >On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > > > >>James Smallacombe wrote: > >>>A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and > >>>configuring > >>>the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion m

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 24), James Smallacombe said: > > Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using > > tar: > > > > su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz > > > > x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so > > x /usr/lib/libalias.a > > x /usr/lib/libalias.so >

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 24), James Smallacombe said: > Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using tar: > > su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz > > x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so > x /usr/lib/libalias.a > x /usr/lib/libalias.so > x /usr/lib/libarchive.a > x /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2Bus err

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, an

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > James Smallacombe wrote: > > A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring > > the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and > > addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out a

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: > James Smallacombe wrote: > > A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring > > the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and > > addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out a

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > >Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old > >server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any > >simlinks to other file systems? > why not just a dump/restore of the file systems in question? He could also fire up nfsd, mount /usr/s

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all the upgrade issues that entailed. Since th