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

[keith at smmc.qld.edu.au]

Ok thanks for that,....
How cool is Unix really! The wonderful world of pipes.
Bo have I got a lot to learn

> 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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