Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:42:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Jeff Mohler <supra87t@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to migrate to a new disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107080042190.61247-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107080040010.61247-100000@beppo>
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I mean, Warner- you're right, but, well, I've been using tar to copy systems for the last 5 years for *BSD, and, well, it really works best for me. On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Only if you want to be here until next tuesday. Solaris ufsdump runs 8 times > as fast. > > You're right - tar doesn't handle files with holes. Not too many of those > around. > > /dev you can and should always remake. Typically it's only sa0 out of the > generic set that tar skips. > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo> Matthew Jacob writes: > > : tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/<local_fs> && tar xpf -) > > > > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a > > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead. > > > > Warner > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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