On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:01:53PM -0500, leam wrote:
> I'm working to dump and restore from one disk to another, and the system
> won't boot from the second disk. Particulars:
> 
>     NetBSD 1.6 (Sparc64), generic re-compiled kernel
>     root, /usr, and /var were dump'd and restore'd with:
> 	dump 0uf - /dev/rsd0a | ( cd /mnt; restore rvf - )
>          { where a is "/", and /dev/rsd1a is mounted on /mnt}

dump isn't necessary the right too to do this, or do in in single-user,
and make sure all buffers have been synced. There may be data in files which
are not yet on disk, which dump won't be able to read.
I prefer find/cpio for this kind of job myself.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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