Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:35:52 -0500 From: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to New Server.. Passwd Questions Message-ID: <20031201203552.GZ13813@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <003801c3b7c2$9eb0a120$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> References: <000801c3b7bd$2eb54740$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> <3FCABADF.5090001@vonostingroup.com> <20031201040029.GB51594@sentex.net> <003801c3b7c2$9eb0a120$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net>
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Thus spake Lewis Watson (lists@visionsix.com) [30/11/03 23:22]: > Thanks for the ideas on the other stuff, I am always looking for new ideas > and your post has certainly gave me several. I currently use Amanda for > backing up several directories, including /home, custom scripts, configs, > etc etc :-) If you're already using Amanda, you can just use your backups to 'restore' on to the new drive. > I did try rsync ( I just never got comfortable with it I guess) for a > short while myself but found that I like my tape backups. Also, I like the > idea of just moving the drive(s) over, this is really sounds good for > /home especially. That would make it easy to bring a new server online and > with the tape we also have a backup to go with it in the event of a > failure that knocks out the hard drives (Using raid 1) One thing that I forgot to mention about using dd -- it's a bad idea to use, unless the source and destination drives are *exactly* the same size. Because you're doing a bitwise copy of the drive, you can potentially wind up throwing things off. Not to mention that it does a bit-to-bit copy of *every* bit, whereas dump|restore only nabs the files that actually exist. > Thanks for the help with the question too, I wanted to make sure that I > wasn't missing something :-) Looks like you've got everything you need, to keep usernames and groups around.
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