Restore System

Cody Holland cholland at redmoonbroadband.com
Wed Sep 21 14:45:59 PDT 2005


Thanks for all the help.  I've added the -X option to tar and have a
file containing all directories and files I don't wish to backup. 


Cody 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gayn Winters [mailto:gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:06 PM
To: Cody Holland; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Restore System

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cody Holland
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:48 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Restore System

> I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command:
> tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz /
> 
> I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command:
> tar -xzpf /path to backup file
> 
> The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE

> harddrive, and the new system is SCSI.  I'm getting the following
> errors:
> dev/ad0: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1a: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1b: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1c: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1d: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1e: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> 
> Is there an easy way around this?  Any help would greatly be 
> appreciated.
 
You should probably step back and tell us:
1.  What you are trying to accomplish.
2.  What hardware you have (both machines).
3.  What software you are running (uname -a).

You should probably at least reread the Handbook on devices, device
naming, backups (in particular dump and restore).

Best regards,

-gayn




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