Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:22:07 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unknown Crashes Message-ID: <00bb01c203f7$8d5a3560$22e2910c@daleco>
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> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> > To: "'Jack L. Stone'" <jackstone@sage-one.net>; > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:20 PM > Subject: RE: Unknown Crashes > > > > Jack L. Stone [mailto:jackstone@sage-one.net] wrote: > > > For further safety, I'm configuring a backup server that will be kept > > > current for redundancy so that I can just flip over the cable > > > when I need to shut down the main server. BUT, haven't even had time to > > > do that yet because of this.... > > > > > > I'm tarring to another drive HD-2 and don't have a tape to > > > dump to. Tapes are good, but they are so sloooowwww. What's the best way to > > > use dump to the backup HD...??? I didn't think I could. > > > > Ummm... I don't have the man page in front of me now (I'm at a different > > computer right now), but you can make dump write to stdout -- and then > pipe that into a file, or right back into restore, to write it to a different > > disk. > > > > HTH, > > Ricky IIRC, the -f switch to dump allows the dump to go to a file. I'd definitely test my memory against the manpages before I tried it, though... Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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