dump and restore

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:21:26PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, 
> but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on 
> the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the 
> original to the new partitions by using:
> 
> dump 0af - /dev/ad2s1[adef] | restore xf -
> 
> (the partitions adef where done one by one)
> 
> The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 
> seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine 
> on different IDE controllers.
> 
> Is it normal for a backup/restore to take this long? Or could this be 
> due to my failing disk?

When dumping to a file it should not take this long. But in this case it
might be that dump is waiting for restore, since the space in a pipe is
not infinite. 

Also, when dumping mounted partitions you should use the -L flag with
dump. But in a case like this there is little reason to mount the old
partitions. 

If the failing disk was giving trouble, you might find errors in
/var/log/messages. 

Roland
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