Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:43:24 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: remotely restoring over a live working system Message-ID: <20010516154635.165FA3F3F@bast.unixathome.org>
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A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar the old disk over to the new disk and get everything back running that way. It's that or upgrade to stable, install about 30 or so packages, and manually configure everything. How feasible is copying from ad2 to ad0 given that I'm booting and running off ad0? My thoughts are that it's faster but higher risk. cheers -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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