Copying binaries to new server

[James Smallacombe]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is
> a better way than using tar.

I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well?  Also, what's this?

su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Oct 24 15:52:01 2006
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1d (/usr) to ns1.usr.dump
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 3077070 tape blocks on 79.03 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump
  DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
  DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes
  DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 149561
  DUMP: Closing ns1.usr.dump
  DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #3
  DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")

What volume?  The one I'm dumping?  If so, why does it keep asking whether
it's mounted?  What are all these different volume numbers?  I just want to
dump /usr to one file, compressing and preserving permissions and symlinks as
much as possible, so I can restore it to a new server.

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