What's an easy way to replace a drive?

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:11:19PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
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> I would recommend using dump(8) to copy each of the filesystems to a file.   
> Then create new slices & partitions, newfs them and restore(8) the contents 
> back. It is safer and just as efficient.

Notice one could use the r-version of dump, rdump, to write the dump
file on a networked machine. Its simpler than setting up NFS. Modern
versions apparently support ssh, which eliminates most of the security
fears of traditional r-commands.

If rdump works for you then rrestore should as well.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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