Subject: Re: Standalone backup on NetBSD ?
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Laurent=20FAILLIE?= <l_faillie@yahoo.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/11/2003 23:44:37
Hi David,

> 	Unless you have ecplictly compiled anything with
> specific
> 	sun4m flags to speed things up (eg: via
> devel/cpuflags),

No, it's the stock configuration : I've tryed to build
a custom kermel  after an 'adjustkernel' but it fails
to compile  ... and no time yet to check why :-(

> 	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 :)

Yes, i thought about this solution but, as I haven't
hotplug disk, I have to shutdown the machine every
time I want to switch it to the other system.

Any other idea ?

Bye

Laurent


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