I'm about to start migrating a lot of files on UFS filesystems from a Solaris 9
server to a new server running Solaris 10 (u3) with ZFS (a Thumper). Now...
What's the best way to move all these files? Should one use Solaris tar,
Solaris cpio, ufsdump/ufsrestore, rsync or what?
I currently use
Peter Eriksson wrote:
I'm about to start migrating a lot of files on UFS filesystems from a Solaris 9 server
to a new server running Solaris 10 (u3) with ZFS (a Thumper). Now... What's the
best way to move all these files? Should one use Solaris tar, Solaris cpio,
ufsdump/ufsrestore, rsync
I currently use Solaris tar like this:
cd $DIR tar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - . | rsh $HOST cd $NEWDIR tar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -
seems simple enough :-)
ufsdump/ufsrestore doesn't restore the ACLs so that doesn't work,
same with rsync.
ufsrestore obviously won't work on ZFS.
Is this
Richard Elling wrote:
Peter Eriksson wrote:
ufsdump/ufsrestore doesn't restore the ACLs so that doesn't work, same
with rsync.
ufsrestore obviously won't work on ZFS.
ufsrestore works fine; it only reads from a 'ufsdump' format medium and
writes through generic filesystem APIs. I did
Robert Thurlow wrote:
Richard Elling wrote:
Peter Eriksson wrote:
ufsdump/ufsrestore doesn't restore the ACLs so that doesn't work,
same with rsync.
ufsrestore obviously won't work on ZFS.
ufsrestore works fine; it only reads from a 'ufsdump' format medium and
writes through generic
