Re: Imaging to new system
- From: "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:09:11 -0700
On Dec 30, 2007 11:47 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Running dump(8) and restore(8) would allow you to back up and restore
your system.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore
This is typically used with tape, although you can dump to disk as well.
If your data/system is critical, you ought to already have some backup
strategy you could restore the system from to your new RAID. If not,
you might put one in place (RAID != backups).
Yes, of course, we have data backup and can restore after reinstalling
everything, but I was looking for a complete system restore option. I'll
look into these docs, thanks. There is no tape system, so I guess the
only hope is if it can be dumped and restored from an NFS drive. From
looking at the docs, it does appear this is possible, as long as the
data in on a fs mounted by fstab?
Can be data on a mounted fs or an umounted filesystem altogether:
'files-to-dump' is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files
and directories on a single filesystem to be backed up as a subset of the
filesystem. In the former case, either the path to a mounted filesystem
or the device of an unmounted filesystem can be used. (dump(8))
DS
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