Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:49:29 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about 2.0.5-R Message-ID: <199506132049.NAA01368@everest> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9506131628.K1056-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jun 13, 95 04:24:07 pm
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > > Anyways, I am preparing to upgrade my main server. Can 2.0.5-R read my > > old (2.0-950322-SNAP) partitions? The reason I ask is because I don't > > really completely trust my tape drive, and I'd like to dump all of my > > old filesystems to a large scratch disk that I have on hand and then > > simply recreate my partitions and restore /usr/local and such. > why not cpio'ing the data to a file on the scratch disk, install > 2.0.5R, and then bring the data back. after all, the floppies and the > install use cpio to create 2.0.5R. That's not a bad option, but unfortunately, I have five filesystems to back up, but I only want to restore three and part of the other two. I've never used cpio for this sort of thing.
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