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

[Rob]

If you have ssh(1) installed on both machines, do something like this

  dump 0f - /filesystem | ssh user at remotemachine 'gzip >
filesystem.dump.gz'

on the system to be backed up.

That should write a compressed dump to the remote machine, assuming that
* the local filesystem isn't changing (log updates etc)
* the remote system has enough diskspace

Then you can rebuild the sick machine, and when it's up & running do

  cd /filesystem
  ssh user at remotemachine 'gzcat filesystem.dump.gz' | restore rf -

to bring the files back. All these commands should be run as root.

I'm afraid someone else will need to help you with the vinum stuff....

----- Original Message -----
From: <keith at smmc.qld.edu.au>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?
> From: <keith at smmc.qld.edu.au>
> Date: Sat, May 31, 2003 1:38 pm
> To: <freebsd-question at freebsd.org>
>
> Hi all (second posting try)
> 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?
> Thanks
> Keith
>
>
>
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