Re: Question about restore

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:28:37PM +0700, Fira wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to migrate one of my server (machine A) into another (machine B). My > choice is using 'dump' and 'restore'. I've dumped all of my filesystem into > third machine (machine C) over ssh. All went fine. > Then, I want to re

Re: Question about restore

2008-02-02 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 03:43 PM 2.2.2008 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> My question is, how is the right way to do the restore in a system that >> hasn't been installed with freebsd at all? From what I get in google, every > >of course. > >i won't help you with sysinstall as i don't use it, just use LiveCD to >m

Re: Question about restore

2008-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(3) My way: I first install a minimal distribution of FreeBSD on a new machine, then do something like # cd / && gunzip -c /mnt/remote_storage/old_host_root.dmp.gz | restore -ruf - <...> and you gen mix of new and old system, with all files appearing that are on fresh install but not on old sys

Re: Question about restore

2008-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My question is, how is the right way to do the restore in a system that hasn't been installed with freebsd at all? From what I get in google, every of course. i won't help you with sysinstall as i don't use it, just use LiveCD to make partitions, newfs and then restore __

Re: Question about restore

2008-02-02 Thread Leonid Satanovsky
Hi there! (1) You MAY TRY Frenzy [ http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ ] FreeBSD LiveCD distribution for the task. I didn't, but, I think, it MAY help you. ) --

Question about restore

2008-02-02 Thread Fira
Hi list, I want to migrate one of my server (machine A) into another (machine B). My choice is using 'dump' and 'restore'. I've dumped all of my filesystem into third machine (machine C) over ssh. All went fine. Then, I want to restore it into machine B. This machine is newly fresh, no freebsd in