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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: backing up filesystems Message-ID: <E1stt1.Ex8@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <57e77c$m1@quince.nac.ac.za> <57g28f$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:24:36 GMT Lines: 13 In article <57g28f$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >disklabel and newfs the new drive, than use piped dump/restore combos >to move the files. Best do this in single-user mode, so the original >files are not risky to be modified while the copy is in progress. You'll save a *lot* of time if you mount the new disk in async mode. But only do this if it's empty to start with - if it crashes fsck may not be able to save you. -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"