copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

[Jerry McAllister]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:

> James Harrison wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others.  I want to move
> >>> just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x ("do not cross
> >>> filesystems") was intended for.  It failed, however, as df shows 20k
> >>> ...      
> >> I would use dump/restore.
> >> ...
> >> Then, run the dump/restore
> >>
> >>   cd /newpart
> >>   dump 0af - / | restore -rf -
> >>
> >> This will get all of / as you want.  The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr
> >> and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems.  You
> >> probably want that.
> >>
> >> ////jerry
> >>     
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Steve
> >>>       
> >
> > Everyone's recommending dump/restore for copying file systems, and
> > there's something that I've never really been clear on.
> >
> > The nice thing about rsync is that it's network aware. Can dump dump a
> > file system across a network?
> >
> > James
> >
> Hi,
> If you want to perform network backups, you should consider using a
> network aware backup solution such as Bacula or Amanda.

He said he just wants to make a copy of the file system on to
another disk.   Getting a whole new system set up is overkill for that.
Anyway, we were never happy with Amanda.  Haven't used Bacula.

////jerry

> 
> Konstantinos
>