Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:30:30 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up a FreeBSD Box... Message-ID: <19980712203030.B12922@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199807121404.HAA27603@hub.freebsd.org>; from Carroll Kong on Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:07:20AM -0500 References: <199807121404.HAA27603@hub.freebsd.org>
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I'd dump all interesting filesystems, for example: / /var /usr /home In case of trouble you only need to boot the cdrom, create FreeBSD partition on a new harddrive (W)rite the partition table, then create filesystems and (W)rite this as well, so new filesystems are created. After that restore the backup'ed data onto each filesystem with restore -rf /dev/nrst0 It's one of the fastest methods for recovery .. More about backup... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ Why dump is better than xyz: http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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