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check@approved.hdr (Jack Strangio) writes:

>Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> writes:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Under Solaris, what's the best way to move entire filesystems to a new disk? 

>Unlesss the new filesystem is exactly the same (or very nearly) then dd is not
>good. This is because it makes an exact  clone of the disk partition with the
>included file system, so if sizes are fairly different then problems arise.

Yes A few other people have said that too - seems that the best two
suggestions at present are to use rsync, or to ufsdump/ufsrestore in
combination, which will ignore the fact that the source and destination
drives are not identical.

>My preferred method is to use cpio. This has the advantage of preserving the
>various pipes and /dev's, but you need enough space to have a temporary
>holding place for the .cpio file. If the .cpio file is larger than 2 Gig then
>you may need to 'cat' it through cpio when restoring it. If temporary space for
>the .cpio file is low, then try storing and restoring a directory or two at a time.

That's also been suggested - thankyou for also mentioning it as I didn't
think of using 'cpio' at all.

Regards,

Craig.
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