Re: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?

keith_at_smmc.qld.edu.au
Date: 05/31/03

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    But Greg...you wrote VINUM - spriuk a bit I reckon!
    Yeah look the name of "some util" escapes me but it copies blok by blok
    off to an ftp server (German origin I think). I used fsck to check things
    out but no errors are reported so I can't say why the "some util "
    wouldn't restore the /usr/local slice.
    My main hassle is very poor disk slice design/forethought space wise.
    I have a huge home partition that is not used because this mail server
    uses qmail/vpop toaster(thanks Matt S) /var heaps. Don't ant to patch
    symlinks all over the shop, and I am a no nothing on how to resize (if it
    is possible) and swap reports getswapspacefailed a lot under load.
    Hrrummph!
    I figure a dump, rebuild (with vinum mirror bootstapped) and restore might
    help but the mote I think hte more I think ???
    Thanks Keith

    > On Saturday, 31 May 2003 at 13:39:49 +1000, keith@smmc.qld.edu.au wrote:
    >> I have a one and only drive dying on a server (OK - to use vinum is to
    >> be smarter than I am). Anyways I have unsuccessfully tried to image
    >> the drive using some util that is recommended (?) Can I dump the
    >> slices to a remote machine, install 2 new drives follow the tute to
    >> bootstrap vinum then restore the remote saved slices to the various
    >> slice/partitions? In a bind(4) here! anyone clue me in please?
    >
    > That depends on what's wrong with your disk and why your first "some
    > util" attempt failed. Vinum isn't a disk recovery tool, nor is it
    > particularly for that purpose, so there's no particular reason to
    > assume it will work better than your "some util". Of course, if you
    > give some details, somebody may be able to help you.
    >
    > Greg
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