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 >>>> blocks in /, and rsync filled up the target slice with 50k blocks, so >>>> obviously it blew right past the 'end' of / - did I miss something? Is >>>> there no other way except to umount [tmp,usr,var]? >>>> >>> I would use dump/restore. >>> >>> Build the filesystem in the new disk partition with fdisk, bsdlabel >>> and newfs as needed. Then mount the new partition somewhere - >>> example: >>> mkdir /newpart >>> mount /dev/ad1s1a /newpart >>> (presuming new disk is ad1, slice is 1, partition is a) >>> Doesn't hurt to do an fsck on it here before writing to it, but it >>> probably isn't really needed. >>> >>> 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? >>
Not following the rest of the thread so sorry if a duplicate answer. you can easily dump to a file across a network if you have ssh configured. something like dump -f - /dev/ad1s1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > /path/to/dumpfile.ad1s1.oldhost" Dump can also talk to remote tape devices using rmt apparently but I've never tried this. Vince >> James >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> > Hi, > If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a > network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda. > > Konstantinos > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"