Restore System

[Philip Hallstrom]

> I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command:
> tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz /
>
> I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command:
> tar -xzpf /path to backup file
>
> The problem I'm running into is that the original system is has an IDE
> harddrive, and the new system is SCSI.  I'm getting the following
> errors:
> dev/ad0: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1a: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1b: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1c: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1d: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
> dev/ad0s1e: Can't restore device node: No such file or directory
>
> Is there an easy way around this?  Any help would greatly be
> appreciated.

Look into the --exclude option for tar...

      --exclude pattern       Exclude files matching the pattern (don't 
extract them, don't add them, don't list them).

just skip everything beneath /dev/

-philip