Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:53 PM 11/5/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Hakan K
Try to connect the bad one as a secondary HD to get the data if u can not clone it.. Thanks Hakan http://dominor.com On Nov 5, 2007 3:50 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:53 PM 11/5/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: rsync is too high-level, and may not do exactly the right thing with links or sparse files or who knows what. rsync -cav takes cares of symlinks and all that just right. It's a beautiful thing. Checksumming, too. Ah, bliss. It

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive,

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread FX Charpentier
: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 4:58:47 PM Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: rsync is too high-level, and may

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread FX Charpentier
@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 7:18:57 PM Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jon Hamilton
James [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Nov 05, 2007 [03:16:46 PM]: } On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: } } On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: } } On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: } } I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use dump with the following options (e.g. for /usr); dump -0 -B 4589560 -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -P \ 'cat - usr-0-20071106-vol${DUMP_VOLUME}.dump' /usr This splits dump output in DVD-R sized chunks. completely strange better -f file1,file2,file3,. (you may type more files than actually