Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:20AM -0700, 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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Konstantinos Pachnis
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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Vince
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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 AM, 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,

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:46:53AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: dump 0af - / | restore -rf - Jerry - thanks a million. I was pouring over the dump/restore and 'backup basics' in the handbook, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it to go to a filesystem instead of a

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread James Harrison
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.

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
James Harrison wrote: 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? You could probably use ssh as a transport. --

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-04 Thread Steve Franks
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

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-04 Thread lveax
On Dec 5, 2007 12:38 AM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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