Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:45:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backups & cloning Message-ID: <20090930054538.1d4dc718.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909292128150.45380@wonkity.com> References: <4AC29BE6.4000505@videotron.ca> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909291759110.44648@wonkity.com> <4AC2B3BB.4080807@videotron.ca> <20090930040733.91cc32d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AC2C6FE.5030507@videotron.ca> <20090930051819.be26dc3b.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909292128150.45380@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr > instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. This works without problems as long as it is running from the system to be copied. In case you use a live system, it doesn't know anything about the associations between devices and the mountpoints; this information is, as far as I know, obtained via /etc/fstab. This is important to know especially if the source and target disk have different layouts and concepts, e. g. /dev/ad0s1d = /var -> /dev/da0s1e = /var (different partition names for same subtree). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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