From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 5 21: 0:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70D237BACF for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21345; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:29:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <138081494.954993421257.JavaMail.nobody@canweb.canbox.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:29:15 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Lem Snowden Subject: RE:Rapid Replication Strategy Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, sean@stat.Duke.EDU Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Apr-00 Lem Snowden wrote: > I need to experiment with dump|restore and NOT MAKING UP THE filesystems > myself and then polpulating them individually from tar balls ... yech .. > too much work .. You should be able to make a script to fdisk/disklabel/newfs'd the drives for you and suck the dump off a remote system and restore it onto your freshly newfs'd disks. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message