SCSI Shock Advice !

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Thanks for replies, however I need advise
> > on cloning the IDE to the SCSI disc.
> > 
> > What is the best / safest way to do
> > a disk clone in this case?
> 
> Don't use any of the cloning utilities (not even dd) because you 
> are not trying to make an exact byte for byte clone, but rather
> a functional copy.   That is quite different.
> 
> The best thing is to create the new file systems
> eg slice (fdisk) partition (disklabel or bsdlabel in 5.xxx) 
> and build the file system (newfs) and then mount the new file
> systems to a temporary mount mount and  transfer each file system 
> separately by running dump and restore.
> 
> Note:  To make a bootable copy you will need to put in an MBR when
> you do the fdisk to create the slice and a boot block when you do t
> the disklabel/bsdlabel when you do the partitioning.  Don't leave 
> those out.
> 
> If you have room, you can run a dump to a file in spare space
> somewhere and then  restore from that file.  If you don't have 
> the extra space, you can pipe a dump of the old fs to a restore
> to the new one.  Make sure you cd in to the new file system 
> before doing the restore whichever way you are doing it.
> 
> This is covered pretty much in the man pages of dump and restore.
> But, say your SCSI is da0 and you created one slice and did the
> label/partitioning ok and newfs-ed all the partitions and now you
> want to put the old root on the new disk.
> 
>   cd /
>   mkdir newroot
>   mount /dev/da0s1a /newroot
>   cd /newroot
>   dump 0af - / | restore rf -
> 
> Do the similar for each of the file systems you want/need to move over.
> That probably means all of them.

By the way, I notice that in the FAQ on moving to a "huge disk"
it uses the 'x' switch on the restore and I think it is more
appropriate to use 'r'.    So,  'restore rf -'  as I indicate in
my post instead of   'restore xf -' as in the faq.  
Actually, it might work either way, but I think 'r' is more correct.

////jerry

> 
> When you are done, the only thing left to do, besides checking things
> out to make sure they look good is to modify the new copy of /etc/fstab
> so the devices to mount will now be da0s1..  instead of ad0s1..
> 
> You can also get rid of all the 'restoresymtable' files in each
> new filesystem.  Restore uses those to keep track of itself and they
> are no longer needed once it has successfully completed.
> 
> You should then be able to shuffle any disks and bios you need to
> to make the SCSI disk the boot device and then boot and run.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thanks again
> > 
> > Graham
> > 
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