On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Laurent FAILLIE wrote:

> I'm thinking about migrating my SS5 from NetBSD 1.6 to
> 1.6.1 and making some changes on my disks
> configuration. As this machine is also my gateway to
> the Internet, I'll try to make this migration as
> smooth as possible.
>
> So, some questions :
>
> 1/ I wonder how I can make a full bootable backup of
> all I have on my machine. So, in case of trouble, I
> can boot off this tape and restore everything, like w/
> IGNITE tape on HP-UX or standalone backup on VMS ?
>
> 2/ I have another SS2 for testing : does it works if I
> reinstall everything on this machine to make a
> migration test ? (the SS5 runs a generic kernel).

	Unless you have ecplictly compiled anything with specific
	sun4m flags to speed things up (eg: via devel/cpuflags),
	then it should just work. In fact, after setting up the
	ss2 disk you should be able to move it to the cdrom connector
	of the ss5 and have things just work.

	If you do that then your original ss5 disk is the bootable
	backup until you are completely happy with the new disk,
	then you can just copy the data across (at which point the
	ss2 disk if your backup :)

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