From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 21 02:30:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA23622 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 02:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA23617 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 02:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21529 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:30:44 GMT Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:30:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: restore? In-Reply-To: <19970921085233.JH45420@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i'm about to do something i'm really nervous about. I have a tar/gzip'd file of a whole freebsd drive i made that i would like to restore OVER a freshly installed system. everything is backed up, password file, configuration files, user home directories, X server... etc. etc. etc... what would be the best way for me to do this without fubarring my system? i'm temped to reboot the freshly installed system, become root, and just untar the file to / then reboot again... good idea? dumb idea? help? :) thank you, Alfred