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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!agate!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: backup and restore Date: 17 Aug 1996 21:18:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4v5cvm$74h@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cajas001.840296202@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E cajas001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Judith I Cajas-Dorin) wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my hardware to a 100Mhz Pentium with larger > disk drives. I have tape drives on both systems. How do I backup > the complete system from one machine and carry it to the other? RTFM dump(8), restore(8). > I want the new machine to look excatly like to old snapshot? So don't actually install a system on the new machine. Instead, boot the installation floppy, and start as if you were installing a system. Go on until your partitions and file systems are there, then abort the installation. Select ``F)ixit'', mount the fixit floppy, and restore all your backup tapes onto the disk. (Of course, you can also disklabel and newfs from the fixit shell, but sysinstall is more comfortable for this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)