From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 24 19:57:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C35B16A40F for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:57:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@pil.net) Received: from richard2.pil.net (mail.pil.net [207.7.198.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A67E43D4C for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:57:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@pil.net) Received: (qmail 19378 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Oct 2006 19:57:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 2006 19:57:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:57:53 -0400 (EDT) From: James Smallacombe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061024192723.GB84382@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:57:54 -0000 On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is > a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this? su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Oct 24 15:52:01 2006 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1d (/usr) to ns1.usr.dump DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 3077070 tape blocks on 79.03 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 149561 DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #3 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") What volume? The one I'm dumping? If so, why does it keep asking whether it's mounted? What are all these different volume numbers? I just want to dump /usr to one file, compressing and preserving permissions and symlinks as much as possible, so I can restore it to a new server. James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net =========================================================================