Dump/Restore for system migration

[Mike Tancsa]

On 1/19/2015 1:50 PM, Chris Maness wrote:
> I have used dump/restore for system migration a couple of time and noticed
> it is pretty good, but every once in a while it will miss or corrupt a
> file.  Is there a better way to do this?  I would imagine having a system
> mounted r/o would help, but this is not always possible.  Is there a way to

Are you using -L when doing the dump ?  I dont think there is a built in 
way to checksum things, but moving to zfs is one of the benefits as 
there are many more such safety features

	---Mike


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